Marrowstone Quotes & Sayings

It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along I'd never even spent time around a man. Hell, I'd never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land? — Sol Luckman

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright. — Robin Roberts

Angels and demons, heaven and hell, God, morality, law and language. It's all metaphor. Scaffolding to handle the areas where base reality won't cut it for you guys, where it's too cold for humans to live without something made up. We codify our hopes and fears and wants, and then build whole societies on the code. And then forget it ever was code and treat it like fact. Act like the universe gives a shit about it. Go to war over it, string men and women up by the neck for it. Firebomb trains and skyscrapers in the name of it. — Richard Morgan

I'm tired of holding onto the past, tired of my memories taking me back there, and I know you are too. — T.A. Anderson

Whatever happened to all of those friends of ours Lotto wondered. The ones who had seemed so essential had faded away. — Lauren Groff

From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is totally mysterious. I couldn't explain everything that went on in the creation of a poem, but I could try to explain as much as I knew. I thought readers deserved that. I didn't want to set myself apart as being someone special. — Pattiann Rogers

Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable? You have as much charisma as the rotting innards of unidentified roadkill. — Tahereh Mafi