Reconstructing Amelia Quotes & Sayings

I was in some one else's house, so I woke up early - at eight - with that crazy sleeping-at-someone-else's-house energy. — Ned Vizzini

Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed. — Victor Hugo

...I am discovering that it is truly a mistake--it may even be a moral wrong, in fact--to judge. Truth is too complex, too contradictory, too mercurial, to be one-sided, though it is human nature to prefer the reassurance and ease of firm judgement. Judgement helps us to justify our less savory actions. — Melissa Pritchard

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere. — Swami Vivekananda

I kinda felt like the first slice of bread in the bag. Everyone touched me, but no one wanted me. — Kelly Moran

I get emails from students at programs all over the country who want to transfer to Iowa, and in most cases their frustrations have absolutely nothing to do with the programs they're attending. They have to do with the growing pains that they're undergoing as writers and with the growing pains that our own genre is constantly undergoing. — John D'Agata

I would not worry about that, mortal. No one ever leaves the Nevernever completely sane. — Julie Kagawa

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising. — Jeff Koons