Pildash Quotes & Sayings

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work. — Donna Tartt

PAPA'S NAME, UZO, meant "door," or "the way." It was a solid kind of name, strong-like and self-reliant, unlike mine, Ijeoma (which was just a wish: "safe journey"), or Mama's, Adaora (which was just saying that she was the daughter of all, daughter of the community, which was really what all daughters were, when you thought about it). — Chinelo Okparanta

Pain is the enemy. It is a ghost. I will allow it to wash over me, through me, leaving nothing in its wake. — Michaela McGregor

like everything, sanity came more easily with practice. — Ann Cleeves

God is the God of the impossible, as well as the God of the possible. — Lester Roloff

Women are an eternal subject, which is a lot like being subjected, or subjugated, or a subject nation, even. There are comparatively few articles about whether men are happy or why their marriages also fail or how nice or not their bodies are, even the movie-star bodies. They are the gender that commits the great majority of crime, particularly violent crime, and they are the majority of suicides as well. American men are falling behind women in attending college, and have fallen farther in the current economic depression than women, which you'd think would make them interesting subjects of inquiry. — Rebecca Solnit

After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I. — Harper Lee

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored. — Joel Edgerton

Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard. — Tony Robbins

Had the world always been like this? Why had it seemed so much kinder when she was younger? Why had it seemed beautiful? — Amy Zhang

Life may contain the "essence" (what else could?); recollection, the repetition in imagination, may decipher the essence and deliver to you the "elixir"; and eventually you may even be privileged to "make" something out of it, "to compound the story." But life itself is neither essence nor elixir, and if you treat as such it will only play its tricks on you. — Hannah Arendt