Laughter In Purple Hibiscus Quotes & Sayings

The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone. — Jeremy Jackson

No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war). — Margo Kingston

I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke. — Joan Rivers

I love cooking and one of my favourite things to do with my husband is open up the refrigerator. — Alicia Silverstone

But I had deliberately acquired the habit of closing my eyes even to such obvious assumptions, just as though I did not want to miss a single opportunity for tormenting myself. This is a trite device, often adopted by persons who, cut off from all other means of escape, retreat into the safe haven of regarding themselves as objects of tragedy. — Yukio Mishima

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction. — Rupert Sanders

Vibrizzio? You named it! Okay, this isn't even close to healthy. — Nicki Elson

And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up - and when you cannot see the shoreline, always putting one hand, one word, in front of the other. — Gerald Hausman

I think of my own epitaph, still to be written, and all the places I'll wander. No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. -Violet — Jennifer Niven

A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario. — Alex Lifeson