Katsuya Encino Quotes & Sayings

The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [ ... ] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever. — Laura Miller

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next. — Glen Duncan

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. — Grover Cleveland

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real. — Alice Walker

The aim of his narrative is to remind all not to judge people without knowing their story. Even the worst of villains has a story that perhaps explains their actions, without condoning them. — Devdutt Pattanaik

FICTION is a series of unintended coincidence,confabulation,and quasi-lucid lying made plausible enough for an author and a reader to cohabitate for a secret, brief and sinful affair. Nothing is real.Except imagination~with a pinch of perception, and a dash of collusion used as the Clabber.
Be So Advised. — J.D. Brayton

It's amazing how much you can rationalize when you're on drugs. I could actually say to myself, Look, I'm only doing blow Wednesday through Saturday. — Marc Maron

Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

Love makes me naked;
Propinquity's a harsh master;
O the songs we hide singing to ourselves! — Theodore Roethke

God's image is the married couple, a man and woman, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image. — Pope Francis

I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it. I understand its structural flaws, and the lies it tells, which are primarily, but not always, the lies of omission, and I wasn't going to leave that out. Knopf offered to publish the book but they said that an editor was going to "take out all the negativity," which, of course, I wasn't going to accept. I had been paid half my advance, and I had Nation Books buy the manuscript for that half. — Chris Hedges

be the medulla oblongata. — John M. Del Vecchio

The law tells us what to do; the gospel tells us what God has done for us in Christ. — Michael S. Horton

Before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe. — Andrea Gibson