Kratenka Quotes & Sayings

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. — Iain Banks

Next time it'll be your nuts. — Alexandra Bracken

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation. — Toni Cade Bambara

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved. — Khalil Gibran

I saw us both as if from a distance off in time: two small, craving, suffering creatures, soon to be gone ... So there he was, a man who had been given everything and did not know it, who had lost it all and now knew it, and who was boasting and grinning only to pretend for a few hours longer that he did not know it ... And there I was, a man losing what I was never given, a man yet rich with love, a man whose knees were weakening against gravity, who needed to go somewhere and lie down. I stood facing the man I had hated for forty years, and I did not hate him. If he had acknowledged then what he finally would not be able to avoid acknowledging, I would have hugged him. If I could have done it, I would have liked to pick him up like a child and carry him to some place of safety and calm. — Wendell Berry