Emigrante Quotes & Sayings

When your fight has purpose - to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent - it has a hope of finality. When the fight is about unraveling - when it is about your name, the places to which your blood is anchored, the attachment of your name to some landmark or event - there is nothing but hate, and the long, slow progression of people who feed on it and are fed it, meticulously, by the ones who come before them. Then the fight is endless, and comes in waves and waves, but always retains its capacity to surprise those who hope against it. — Tea Obreht

The world had gone too far in its enthusiasm for moderation and the thing had to be stopped — Rebecca West

What they call 'alt-comedy' now is basically what comedy was like in the '80s. People tried different things, and everybody went to the clubs; there was no other place. Then somehow, the clubs became infiltrated by Dice Clay and Carrot Top types. — Jen Kirkman

I ate her cooking for eighteen years," he whispered. "You get used to it."
"Oh yeah, when?"
"I think it happened around the seventeenth year," Henry said. — Michael Buckley

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much. — Timothy West

Their eyes meet and her heart starts flopping around weakly, like a bunny in a Ziploc bag. He grins and waves. — Neal Stephenson

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. — Leigh Hunt

There is treasure hidden beneath the entire land, but the problem is people are unwilling to dig it out. — Waqar Masood

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her. — Marguerite Duras

We're doing our homework to make sure we're prepared. — Gary Gait