Quiana Watson Quotes & Sayings

Astonishing. In the morning, when she sat working at that table of correspondence, silhouetted by sunlight ...
Her hair truly did look like an octopus.
It was the way she wore it, he thought. Or maybe the way it wore her. It all sat perched atop her head in that big, inky blob. And no matter how strenuously she pinned it, dark, heavy curls worked loose on all sides, like tentacles.
Of course, it was an entrancing, strangely erotic octopus. Ransom worried this might be how fetishes developed. — Tessa Dare

It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love — Jack Gantos

I've noticed in England once people reach a certain level they feel they have to get married. — Usain Bolt

Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax. — Nick Hornby

There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist. — Christian Wiman

Whose truth is it,
Yours or mine?
Is my truth yours and your truth the world's?
Does truth age too
Like humans?
Does it fall sick, and rise up again?
Does it have a life
And then meets its end? — Adyasha Das

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury. — Clarice Lispector

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all. — William Hurt

Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician? — Martin Van Buren

Me too!" Squirrelpaw — Erin Hunter

There's always impossibilities in dreams. Dream more. — Roshani Chokshi

Airports are torture chambers if you're claustrophobic. — Jennifer E. Smith

I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity. — George Saunders