Petillance Quotes & Sayings

I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories - completely terrified but absolutely loved them. — Tom Goodman-Hill

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer. — Floyd Skloot

After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn. — Marty Rubin

Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner or later we all die.
But at the beginning of the night anything's possible. — Lauren Oliver

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness. — V.S. Pritchett

Let yourself be the person you've secretly always wanted to be — Troye Sivan

I was raised on the struggle of elders - iron collars, severed feet, the rifle of dirty Harriet, and down through the years, the Muslims and regal Malcolm. But mostly what I saw around me was rank dishonor: cable and Atari plugged into every room, juvenile parenting, niggers sporting kicks with price tags that looked like mortgage bills. The Conscious among us knew the whole race was going down, that we'd freed ourselves from slavery and Jim Crow but not the great shackling of minds. The hoppers had no picture of the larger world. We thought all our battles were homegrown and personal, but, like an evil breeze at our back, we felt invisible hands at work, like someone else was still tugging at levers and pulling strings. — Ta-Nehisi Coates