Somsri Griffin Quotes & Sayings

There is just so very much I can't do. I don't drive, for one. — Nikki Cox

I was diagnosed a thirteen. Paranoid got tacked on about a year later, after I verbally attacked a librarian for trying to hand me propaganda pamphlets for an underground communist force operating out of the basement of the public library. (She'd always been a very suspect type of librarian--I refuse to believe donning rubber gloves to handle books is a normal and accepted practice, and I don't care what anyone says.) — Francesca Zappia

I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper. — Eddi Reader

He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant he had to do lots of the ribbing himself. — Geoff Dyer

But at some point in her passage, the trees began to change. They stretched taller, and the soft, pale bark darkened, roughened. She put her hand to a tree and touched the lichen growing dark green upon brown, and it felt like old cork, dry and crumbling. Here the sun mellowed, took on the cast of late afternoon, and the shadows seemed to fall a bit longer; the forest had sunk into a deeper silence, magnifying what sounds did arise. The sudden, quick crash of a fox bounding through the brush was as loud as the slam of a great wooden door. — Malinda Lo

Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience. — Emily Dickinson

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it. — Ben H. Winters

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. — Mikhail Gorbachev

You probably didn't hear me, but I told you I loved you that night. I couldn't seem to stop it from slipping out. Then you cried for Denny, and I wanted to die again. — S.C. Stephens