Reinscribes Quotes & Sayings

I have for many years interested myself in the study of children from three years upwards. Many have urged me to continue my studies on the same lines with older children. But what I have felt to be most vital is the need for more careful and particularized study of the tiny child. — Maria Montessori

I am inspired to write, and I write to inspire. — R.L. Hemlock

He lifted her and entered her body in one swift, gliding movement that shattered the remnants of her resistance. 'Blood and sex and Elizabeth,' he said inside her head. 'Bastard, can't you even say hello?' He detached his teeth from her neck and flicked his tongue over the wound to heal it. His burning gaze lifted to hers. 'Hello,' he said huskily, and took her mouth. — Marie Treanor

But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative - the purpose of fiction is not to replace life anymore than it is meant to support some political movement or ideology. All fiction reinscribes the problematic past in terms of the present, and, if it is significant at all, reckons with it instead of simply making it palatable or pretty. What aesthetic is adequate to the Holocaust, or to the recent tragedy in Haiti? Narrative is not exculpatory - it is in fact about culpability, about recognizing human suffering and responsibility, and so examining what is true in us and about us. If we're to say anything important, we require an art less facile, and editors willing to seek it. — Michael Copperman

A good question is the shortcut to a good answer. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that. — Joel Edgerton

He that would govern others first should be master of himself. — Philip Massinger

Stigmata, she said as tonguelessly as possible, and laughed. — Lauren Groff

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours. — Jean De La Bruyere

He tried to make it seem that he had stopped for some dirty talk and to savor the moment, but Anne knew that he was temporarily out of breath, that he'd started out too fast, trying to impress her. — Elliot Mabeuse

I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with. — Sara Zarr