Sqrt 10 Quotes & Sayings

You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts. — Elena Avila

After this, he'd probably be going to zoos, climbing the enclosure, saying, 'Here, watch this...' Famous last words, as yet another unfit human is removed from the gene pool. — Kelley Armstrong

This is what working in what amounts to a rat's nest for the past decade has done to us, I think, looking at our reflections in the mirror. Ten years in a piece-of-crap studio in the armpit of Bushwick with full view-and-sound of the JMZ train, giving ourselves humpbacks craning over our drafting tables, Camels drooping from our mouths, passing expired packages of Peeps back and forth in the dark. The work has made me forget how to act like a person. We're not fit to go out and socialize with the fancy people, all Cheetos-stained hands and dilated pupils. — Kayla Rae Whitaker

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out ... — Ben Marcus

And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't. — Ellen Hopkins

The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual ... — Rose Macaulay

Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK. — Diana Athill