Schiaffo Quotes & Sayings

I say what I think," said the woman. "My people don't hide behind masks."
"You certainly do," said Awt, equably. "Your mask is rudeness and offensively plain speech. We only see how you wish to appear, not your true self. Mask or not, Watchman Inarakhat has been more honest than you. — Ann Leckie

According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun. — Cammie McGovern

I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters. — J. R. Bourne

In the grim darkness of the far future there is more than war. There are real people there too. — Dan Abnett

Andras Riedlmayer described a colleague who survived the siege of Sarajevo. In the winter, the scholar and his wife ran out of firewood, and so began to burn their books for heat and cooking. 'This forces one to think critically,' Riedlmayer remembered his friend saying. 'One must prioritize. First you burn old college textbooks, which you haven't read in thirty years. Then there are the duplicates. But eventually, you're forced to make tougher choices. Who burns today: Dostoevsky or Proust?' I asked Riedlmayer if his friend had any books left when the war was over. 'Oh yes,' he replied, his face lit by a flickering smile. 'He still had many books. Sometimes, he told me, you look at the books and just choose to go hungry. — Matthew Battles

Then she placed her hands, vertically, over her eyes and pressed the heels hard, as though to paralyze the optic nerve and drown all images into a voidlike black. — J.D. Salinger

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket. — Samuel Beckett

O'Baarni. He looked so frail and weak, like the starving — Michael-Scott Earle

you can go just about anywhere these days and see kids that pay very little attention to their parents. — Allen Russell

He suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it. — Michael Lewis

Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit. — Martin Luther