Elite Lucrecia Quotes & Sayings

Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works. — Lev Grossman

Our parents are really weird," he said. "Because they love us? That's not so weird." "It's how they love us that's weird. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy's sake eat them!' The — Jacob Grimm

I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say ... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace. — Rick Warren

The most profound betrayal of feminist issues has been the lack of mass-based feminist protest challenging the government's assault on single mothers and the dismantling of the welfare system. Privileged women, many of whom call themselves feminists, have simply turned away from the feminization of poverty. — Bell Hooks

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too. — Clare Vanderpool

Maybe the Indirect Surveillance thing cost him brain cells. Good thing he was so pretty. — Erin Kellison

An inchoate ball of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon, to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return. — Claire Messud

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India. — Aly Khan