Shunya Yamashita Quotes & Sayings

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets. — James McBride

Och, woman," he said softly, "you show me Heaven and ask me to revisit Hell? Not now, sweet Jessica. Now is for us.
No grim thoughts. Only us . — Karen Marie Moning

As you get older you'll understand that it's not about what you look like or what you own, it's all about the person you've become. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

You walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living. — Kate Atkinson

Now, at just thirty-eight years old, she found herself a widow and a mother, but also a professional still in the early days of realizing her long-held dream. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world. — Joanna Macy

( ... )- for it does take greatness, I think, to stand resolutely against your own people, especially when you are alone, and especially when you that even history will not be kind to you, since you will have forever given the lie all the claims with which the High and the Mighty will try to exonerate themselves. — Amitav Ghosh