Smile By Raina Telgemeier Quotes & Sayings

Everything will be destroyed no matter how hard we work to create it. The idea terrifies me. I want tiny permanents. I want gigantic permanents! I want what I think and who I am captured in an anthology of indulgence I can comfortingly tuck into a shelf in some labyrinthine library. — Marina Keegan

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. — Helene Hanff

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time. — Vin Diesel

I have mad brims. — Mos Def

Stay away from Twolegplace!!!! — Erin Hunter

At a table behind, a man was sitting with his knees pinched together and eating as if it were a punishment: for a few seconds his hand sped between the carton of fries, the small tub of ketchup and the chewing mouth, then he swallowed, grabbed the hamburger with both hands, put it to his lips and took a large bite. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived, — William J. Clinton

When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!' — Raina Telgemeier

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end. — Raina Telgemeier

You cannot miss what you have never had. — Christopher Paolini

Until you have a purpose and clear direction of your life (business) you would only be building a fake brand — Bernard Kelvin Clive

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension. — Raina Telgemeier