Quino Mafalda Quotes & Sayings

He is not Enzo, I remind myself. But I don't want him to be. With Enzo, my energy yearned for his power and ambition, all too happy to let him take me into the darkness. But with Magiano ... I am able to smile, even to laugh. I am able to sit here and lean back and point out the constellations. — Marie Lu

You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed. — Adam McKay

Get a really good coat that will last a couple of years and that you can't wait to put on when the weather starts to turn. — Amber Le Bon

Sometimes your secrets are your only value. — Julianna Baggott

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation. — Ron Holland

We are in a time, because of the proliferation of online media and a hundred channels on cable, where teenagers and young adults and eight- and nine-year-olds do not read enough. And the SAT is very unforgiving for students who do not read. — Jonathan Grayer

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. — Don DeLillo

How often did this happen to people, this not knowing where in the world you were? — Laini Taylor

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia. — Richie Allen

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon. — Linton Kwesi Johnson

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"There's bullet holes in that sign," Tino observed drily.
"There are," Romeo agreed, starting at the dents and holes in the green metal. "Those are bullet holes, no question."
"They shot their own friggin' sign." Tino turned to arch an eyebrow at Romeo. "What the hell are they gonna do to us. — Kele Moon

If you try to test a river's depths with both feet, you will drown. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief — Stephen Kellogg

Curran smiled. It was a happy, genuine smile and it catapulted him from attractive into irresistible territory. He didn't smile very often in public. That intimate smile was usually reserved for private moments when we were alone. I pulled the band off my still-damp braid and slid my fingers through it, unraveling the hair. Curran's gaze snagged on my hands. He focused on my fingers like a cat on a piece of foil pulled by a string. I shook my head and my hair fell over my shoulders in a long dark wave. There we go. Now we were both private in public. — Ilona Andrews

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education — John Legend