Mazziotti Pittsburgh Quotes & Sayings

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. — Jessica Hagedorn

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You! — Thomas Merton

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished. — Lois McMaster Bujold

When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I follow through the fresh and fragrant furrow, I am planted with every foot-step, growing, budding, blooming into a spirit of spring. — Dallas Lore Sharp

When I was young, I was religious. — Jonathan Kozol

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day. — Tommy Rettig

She reaches into the unknown and claims his hand, clasping it as if he might evaporate into the night. She's petrified. Not of the monstrosities prowling the island, but of the demon inside herself. The one about to rip apart her heart and mind to attain a selfish freedom. And it might all be a lie, placed there by the Society. — Laura Kreitzer