Salvinos Selden Quotes & Sayings

When I was a teenager in Boston, a man on the subway handed me a card printed with tiny pictures of hands spelling out the alphabet in sign language. I AM DEAF, said the card. You were supposed to give the man some money in exchange.
I have thought of that card ever since, during difficult times, mine or someone else's; surely when tragedy has struck you dumb, you should be given a stack of cards that explain it for you. When Pudding died, I wanted my stack. I still want it. My first child was stillborn, it would say on the front. It remains the hardest thing for me to explain, even now, or maybe I mean especially now - now that his death feels like a non sequitur. My first child was stillborn. I want people to know but I don't want to say it aloud. People don't like to hear it but I think they might not mind reading it on a card. — Elizabeth McCracken

If you cling frantically to the good, how are you to find out what the good really is? — Robertson Davies

Or else, given that there is world that side of the window and world this side, perhaps the "I," the ego, is simply the window through which the world looks at the world. — Italo Calvino

I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house. — Taye Diggs

The whole present moment was a celebration; it always had been; all I needed was fresh eyes to see it. — Narissa Doumani

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect. — Michelle Monaghan

In a typical situation, it's going to take pretty close to a year to get your location in, get your permits, and then get open. — Fred DeLuca

Show business got really tainted for me. — Anna Chlumsky