Erpenbeck Bill Quotes & Sayings

I cannot believe it," Sean repeated. "It's hypocritical. After the shit she gives me for taking risks? And off she goes, running back to Endicott Falls, today? Like, what the fuck?"
"To be fair," Bruno pointed out. "You ran off to shoot people and blow shit up. She went home to go back to work at her bookstore. — Shannon McKenna

Repetition draws us into music, and repetition draws music into us. — Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

Lord, break the chains that hold me to myself; free me to be Your happy slave - that is, to be the happy foot washer of anyone today who needs his feet washed, his supper cooked, his faults overlooked, his work commended, his failure forgiven, his griefs consoled or his button sewed on. Let me not imagine that my love for You is very great if I am unwilling to do for a human being something very small. — Elisabeth Elliot

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would. — Ronald Reagan

It occurred to her then that life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. A speck on the slender child grows into a gross deformity in the adult, inescapable, ragged at the edges. — Lauren Groff

Africa was always waiting, a substrate for the white man's will, a backdrop for his activities...I was primed to see a white man, a nobody in his own country, who thought, as usual, that the salvation of Africa was up to him. — Teju Cole

And this is the world you saved. Did you expect it to be different, suddenly? Did you expect it to be grateful? — Kate Milford

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture. — Al Yankovic

I suppose all couples feel this way at some point - that their bond is the most special, the strongest, the Greatest Love of All. Not all the time, just in those few and far between moments where you look at the person you're with and think: Yes. It's you. — Colleen Oakley

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can. — John Muir

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. — Katherine Dunn

Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists. — Michael Scott

The fourteen conscious robots contemplated their cosmic loneliness for several milliseconds. — Ken MacLeod

Aunt Polly is all stirred up over it. You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?" Mrs. Carew laughed suddenly. (22) — Eleanor H. Porter