Guerbois Cafe Quotes & Sayings

Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation resembles no book I've read before. If I tell you that it's funny, and moving, and true; that it's as compact and mysterious as a neutron; that it tells a profound story of love and parenthood while invoking (among others) Keats, Kafka, Einstein, Russian cosmonauts, and advice for the housewife of 1896, will you please simply believe me, and read it? — Michael Cunningham

Where do you. come from?" Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could breathe. "Some of us are starting to wonder."
"I come from civilization," Lucius retorted. "You wouldn't be familiar with the territory. Now pick up the books. — Beth Fantaskey

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy. — G. Willow Wilson

There's a famous quote I read somewhere. It says we are all given second chances every day of our lives. They are there for the taking, it's just that we don't usually take them. — Anonymous

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story. — Roddy Doyle

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision. — Harold Taylor

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience. — Andrew Lang

I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one ... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary. — Kathleen Hanna

You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the most ferocious and savage, the most wakeful and clear-sighted, the most restless, the swiftest, the most jealous, the most ardent and violent, the simplest and most elegant, the most unreasonable, the most watchful chimera of the moral world - THE VANITY OF A WOMAN! — Honore De Balzac

Being treated by a doctor who specializes in your kind of cancer is so important, especially for those of us who have rare or very rare cancers. They will have access to newer treatment options that may be offered only at big academic cancer centers, so you don't miss out on treatments that could help you. — Kathy Giusti

Life may not last forever, but keep the thigs in you that will last forever — Ayah

I'm someone who laughs a lot and cries a lot. — Anne-Marie Duff

I'm tipping the hat and looking back. — Robert Plant