Shailaja Behara Quotes & Sayings

I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel. — Julie Klassen

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home ... To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths ... — Rollo May

Right away, I invited on guests like Steve Wozniak, John Draper, and even porn star Danni Ashe, who took her top off in the studio to show us all how hot she was. (Listen up, Howard Stern, I'm following in your footsteps!) — Kevin D. Mitnick

Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in. — Jack Kerouac

All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand. — Mary Gordon

The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should know which information when, and how the revelations would impact the rest of the family. All of those questions eventually lead back to one: What's at the heart of this book? Where does it want to focus, or toward what does it want to lead us? — Peter Turchi

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out. — Chuck Hagel

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then, essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche ... and it's from that position, a position outside the cultural operating system, that we can begin to ask real questions about what does it mean to be human, what kind of circumstance are we caught in, and what kind of structures, if any, can we put in place to assuage the plan and accentuate the glory and the wonder that lurks, waiting for us, in this very narrow slice of time between the birth canal and the yawning grave. In other words we have to return to first premises. — Terence McKenna

A good friend will bail you out when you land in jail, but a very good friend will be sitting beside you in that jail cell. — Maya Banks

The ancient wisdom of the masters says that even a mighty oak was once a nut like you. — Mark Brown

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her. — Tom Smothers