My Sister Rosa Quotes & Sayings

My experience with My Sister Rosa showed me, once again, that I have a much easier time of it if I sell my novels after I finish them, not before. I'm lucky that I'm in a position where I'm able to do that. — Justine Larbalestier

Superstition and sensation are always so much more appealing than truth and rationality. The — Diana Gabaldon

You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do. — Rachael Ray

Now more than ever the world needs a caring positive influence to help better humanity. Let's Be The Generation That Made A Difference! — Timothy Pina

Concord, California was a great place to grow up. — Dave Brubeck

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting, or eating a sandwich, instead of tearing at the injustice of it all or sitting quietly at the center of a grand and monstrous grief. The disaster of my life might be only the worst thing another person heard that afternoon; they might have forgotten by dinnertime; they might have been more heartbroken by watching certain movies. — Jennifer DuBois

My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out. — Justine Larbalestier

I've lost six different times. You can't say, 'Well, he lost, that's the end of the world.' You have to say, 'Okay, you lost, what did we do wrong? — Bernie Sanders

Pain is only relevant if it still hurts. — Ed Sheeran

How are you?"
Rosa shrugged her shoulders. "My sister turned into a giant snake last night. And your cousin Tano - "
"Second cousin."
"He was there too. He was a tiger. I recognized him from his eyes. Then I fainted." She looked at him. "How does that sound? — Kai Meyer

The bus here because they lost Rosa Parks's bus."

"Who lost Rosa Parks's bus?"

"White people. Who the fuck else? Supposedly, every February when schoolkids visit the Rosa Parks Museum, or wherever the fuck the bus is at, the bus they tell the kids is the birthplace of the civil rights movement is a phony. Just some old Birmingham city bus they found in some junkyard. That's what my sister says, anyway."

"I don't know."

Cuz took two deep swallows of gin. "What you mean, 'You don't know'? You think that after Rosa Parks bitch-slapped white America, some white rednecks going to go out of their way to save the original bus? That'd be like the Celtics hanging Magic Johnson's jersey in the rafters of the Boston Garden. No fucking way. — Paul Beatty

But there are no safe spaces. 'Home' can be unsafe and dangerous because it bears the likelihood of intimacy and thus thinner boundaries. Staying 'home' and not venturing out from our group comes from woundedness, and stagnates our growth. To bridge means loosening our borders, not closing off to others. Bridging is the work of opening the gate to the stranger, within and without. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. — Rudy Rucker