Sampha Drake Quotes & Sayings

Virgin," he whispers, and there's a catch in his throat, like he's so relieved to see someone, even me, that he might cry. — Chelsea M. Campbell

Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the "colossal vitality of his illusion". Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher's salary. — Alison Bechdel

Maybe your life will work.
Most likely it won't at first
but that
will give you poetry. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught? — Ursula K. Le Guin

And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you. — Maryann Brandon

Oh get over yourself, so you can kill people, I could shoot you in your face if I wanted to, anyone can do what you do! — Holly Hood

Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects. — Ellsworth Huntington

I only raped her once," he explained. Yossarian was aghast. "But you killed her, Aarfy! You killed her!" "Oh, I had to do that after I raped her," Aarfy replied in his most condescending manner. — Joseph Heller

The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you. — Gabrielle Zevin

A fourteen year old to steal my virginity on the moor and rape me till I come. — Sarah Kane

The Penny Dreadfuls emerge,pulsating with excitement and energy,from ... the staff room. Okay. So it's not as glamorous as emerging from a backstage, but they do look GREAT.Well,two of them do.
The bassist is the same as always. Reggie used to come into work, mooching free tickets off Toph for the latest comic book movies. He has these long bangs that droop over half his face and cover his eyes,and I could never tell what he thought about anything. I'd be like, "How was the new Iron Man?" And he'd say, "Fine," in this bored voice. And because his eyes were hidden,I didn't know if he meant a good fine, or a so-so fine,or a bad fine. It was irritating. — Stephanie Perkins

All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending. You throw out murders and reversals and heroes and detectives and spies, juggle love affairs and near escapes and standoffs with marvellous guns, kidnappings and sorcery and comic relief and gravediggers and princesses and albino dragons, and it's all just to lure an ending into your bed. — Catherynne M Valente

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs. — John Pentland Mahaffy