Klarwein Annunciation Quotes & Sayings

The creature spun, tumbling, then twisted round to face its attacker, rage blazing in its skull. — Steven Erikson

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones. — Tillie Olsen

I'm not that hard to get to know, really." He flashed me a quick smile. "But you ... I think you've made an art form out of deflection and self-possession. — Samantha Young

You could smell the rain in the desert even before a drop fell. I closed my eyes. I held my hand out and felt the first drop. It was like a kiss. The sky was kissing me. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely. — Robert Higgs

My mother never let on that anything was wrong. She kept her chin up and acted as if everything were just fine. So we did too. — Jenni Rivera

To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut. — Lynn Emanuel

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles? — Jessica Mitford

Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it. — Peg Bracken