Marie Cardona The Stranger Quotes & Sayings

I have had a delightfully lonely time of it - plenty of leisure to think and think about things. — Henrik Ibsen

I hate that nothing can be done about the suffering of children, and that most of the world blocks out their suffering to cope with their own inability to help. The few who carry the burden, like social workers and teachers, become weary, burning out after only a few short years, forced to carry the weight that should be shared by a society. Children are vastly overlooked. Their importance underestimated by their size. — Tarryn Fisher

My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life. — Denis Dutton

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children. — Will Durant

If you purify the pond, the lilies die — William Stafford

The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she loses track of something that was driving her and has to figure out what's going to drive the next part of her mission, this mission to be an author. I had to push back away from her for a while before we could come up to that really lyrical close third in the final section. — Danielle Dutton

The most important question is, what is really most important for you in life and how to get there. — Debasish Mridha