Madrid 1987 Quotes & Sayings

You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept. — Anne Lamott

I have been fighting over commas all my life. — Mark Helprin

I'm not sure who faked their orgasm first, but thankfully it was over rather quickly. — Donald Jans

She's always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. [ ... ]
My mum says it's because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed.
Celia's mum says it's because Celia's identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it's a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see. — Jaclyn Moriarty

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice. — Alice B. Toklas

We never move on FROM the Gospel, we move on IN the Gospel — J.I. Packer

It's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary. — Hunter S. Thompson

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning. — Chinua Achebe