Kefyalew Tefera Quotes & Sayings

Can you, like, see invisible people, too?"
"No," Warner says to him, eyes focused in front of him. "I can feel your presence. Hers, most of all."
"Really?" Kenji says. "That's some weird shit. What do I feel like? Peanut butter?"
Warner is unamused. — Tahereh Mafi

Herbalism is a religion of nature, representing a balance of head and heart. — Michael Tierra

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. — Jose Saramago

The power in any society is with those who get to impose the fantasy. It is no longer, as it was for centuries throughout Europe, the church that imposes its fantasy on the populace, nor is it the totalitarian superstate that imposes the fantasy, as it did for 12 years in Nazi Germany and for 69 years in the Soviet Union. Now the fantasy that prevails is the all-consuming, voraciously consumed popular culture, seemingly spawned by, of all things, freedom. The young especially live according to the beliefs that are thought up for them by the society's most unthinking people and by businesses least impeded by innocent ends. Ingeniously as their parents and teachers may attempt to protect the young from being drawn, to their detriment, into the moronic amusement park that is now universal, the preponderance of the power is not with them. — Philip Roth

A man who reads will find himself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think what we're going to hear is that we didn't meet the basic, minimum standards required for a facility such as the one we had in Benghazi. And the request for more security personnel went unheeded, unanswered, and consequently, you know, you have the death of four Americans. — Jason Chaffetz

(He had already figured out a great universal truth, that people never asked for documentation of anything, as long as you asked them for documentation first.) — Charlie Jane Anders

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore. — Tom Robbins

I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential - I was torn between the two. — Karen Joy Fowler