Dirty Banana Quotes & Sayings

I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true. — Patricia Polacco

I go up to my room to put the finishing touches on Margot's scrapbook and listen to only the slow songs from Dirty Dancing, — Jenny Han

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey. — Jeanette Winterson

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know? — Gloria Steinem

The most important thing that God expects from you is faithfulness — Sunday Adelaja

He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and torn places, the shining bark of the wet trees all around. He could not think of any prayers now. But every movement felt like a kind of adoration. — Richard Bausch

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. — Phil Klay

I used to think that people are were supposed to be more strange, and dirty, and full of all sorts of emotions, pity and nobility, with infinite layers of complications. — Banana Yoshimoto

How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap? — Ruth Kluger

It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing. — Eve Babitz

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater. — William Carlos Williams

[describing Aaron, hero's brother] His hair was shorter and lighter, and his eyes were more green than blue. And even though he was tall, he wasn't quite super-sized. He was more sculpted, more ... elegant. more slender and beautiful and less raw-boned. Less Stone Age and more Bronze Age - but till the kind of man who enjoyed living in a cave. — Suzanne Brockmann

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences. — Isabel Allende