Himmelblau Books Quotes & Sayings

This object that we hold in our hands, a book ... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away. — Maggie Stiefvater

You should get more sun and fresh air. The other day I read in the paper that vitamin D increases our faith in fellow humans. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward ... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff. — Arthur Ashe

Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, "Who's the real master in this relationship?" — Anthony Griffin

What is the point, what is the reason, to lock people away for years, when it seems to mean so very little, even to the jailers who hold the key? — Piper Kerman

I love motorcycles and riding bikes. Like a lot of riders, I look at a bike like it's an iron horse - a living thing that you have to build a relationship with - and that bike is my horse. — Diego Sanchez