Nadifa Quotes & Sayings

I thought you said you dislocated Selene's shoulder!"" Sonny called to Cait, who'd tumbled for safety into the black water behind the stern of the boat.
""I did! I guess someone elserelocated it!"" she shouted back. — Lesley Livingston

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich. — Graham Joyce

But it is their voices that really bother her: why do men speak so loudly? They shout rather than talk and laugh like the world needs to know they are laughing. — Nadifa Mohamed

Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies. — Roger Altman

When reached for comment on the charges, Martha didn't say much, (only) that a subpoena should be served with a nice appetizer. — Conan O'Brien

When you see fair hair Be pitiful. — George Eliot

As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as possible, but now those very possessions prevent their flight. — Nadifa Mohamed

I stood in bars, clothed but naked, looking from their eyes to my feet and back again. Still there was the longing to contend with: the heavy, bloody, chemical urge to consume another body and spit out its bones in a new child. How do you make a stranger so intimate when they could so easily destroy you? — Nadifa Mohamed

I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace. — Peace Pilgrim

It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned. — Nadifa Mohamed

When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime! — Victor Hugo

He's enthusiastic," Eve commented. "Yeah, but if you're not excited about your work, life's crap. — J.D. Robb

The weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers — Nadifa Mohamed

Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say. — Nadifa Mohamed

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move. — Yana Toboso

Making success deliberate means that you must make success a habit; and habits are a product of the subconscious mind. We call them habits because we can actually do them without being conscious of what we are doing. Things we end up doing without sitting down to think because we have done them so many times, thought about them so many times they are now imprinted onto our subconscious mind. If we could think about success so much, practice it so much more, then we imprint thoughts and seeds of success onto our subconscious that it becomes a habit. — Archibald Marwizi

I want to feel embarrassed by my desperation but I'm too busy feeling desperate. — Marley Jacobs

We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget. — Mark Kirk

I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names ... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die. — Alan Bradley

Novels
which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments and choices. — William Deresiewicz

In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her. — Nadifa Mohamed