Omowale Moses Quotes & Sayings

Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder. — Rae Armantrout

I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case. — John Knowles

I didn't hear the exact moment Sarren ended Zeke's life. I was just aware of his breathing, tagged at first, then seizing up, as if he could no longer gasp for her. And then, a long, agonizingly slow exhale, the last gulp departing his lungs, as Ezekiel's tortured breaths finally, irreversibly, stopped altogether.
"Good night, sweet prince." Sarren crooned, a velvet whisper.
The recording clicked off. — Julie Kagawa

Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits. — Diana Gabaldon

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced. — Edwin Percy Whipple

It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour. — Charles Dickens

When a man faces his death, Impossible is less than a barrier. — Supreeth

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear. — Diana Wynne Jones