Shunsui Quotes & Sayings

In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know. — Bashar Al-Assad

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it. — Leo Tolstoy

She had the same hard look in her eyes, as if she'd been used for the past two thousand years and was getting tired of it. — Rick Riordan

I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may. — Sylvia Plath

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes. — Arthur Eddington

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. — Ron Carlson

Stating a truth in an emotional way does not make what we say irrational; our beliefs being severed from truth and reality do. — Patty Houser

Along with Alec's blood, Simon could taste the metal of fear, the spark of pain, and the eager flame of something else, something he had tasted the first time he had drunk Jace's blood on the filthy metal floor of Valentine's ship. Maybe all Shadowhunters did have a death wish, after all. — Cassandra Clare

You can call it institutionalized racism or institutionalized inequality, but what I say is that any system that operates to maintain inequality is a corrupt system and must be addressed. — Robert D Bullard

More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote. — Michelle Alexander