Soltando Rojao Quotes & Sayings

When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China. — Jean Fritz

Her beauty has captured me, imprisoned my capacity for language. All I can do is pay homage to the temple of her body. — Jasinda Wilder

I have a friend who calls me the queen of the nightmares because I've always had really bad nightmares. I keep a notebook by the side of my bed, so I'll wake up in the night from a bad dream, and my heart's pounding, and I'm really scared, but I write it down, and sometimes I get ideas for books that way. — Jennifer McMahon

I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring. — Carrie Brownstein

This Shanghai was not a place but a feeling of contentment. I was returning with myself whole and unbroken - limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, — Amy Tan

With his divine alchemy he turns not only water into wine, but common things into radiant mysteries, yea, every meal into a eucharist, and the jaws of the sepulchre into an outgoing gate. I do not mean that he makes any change in the things or ways of God, but a mighty change in the hearts and eyes of men, so that God's facts and God's meanings become their faiths and their hopes. The destroying spirit, who works in the commonplace, is ever covering the deep and clouding the high. For those who listen to that spirit great things cannot be. Such are there, but they cannot see them, — George MacDonald

There is only one thing more numerous than the stars," I say, looking up to the heavens. "And that is the darkness that holds them. — Jessica Khoury

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money. — Jef I. Richards