Tanikawa Shuntaro Quotes & Sayings

Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks! — Elizabeth Peters

This thing called universal gravitation
Is the power of loneliness pulling together. — Shuntaro Tanikawa

I ask God every day to give me the words to tell the kids. That's my mentality, and that's what I'm intending to do. — La'el Collins

By the light of the hominy fire Sixo straightens. He is through with his song. He laughs. A rippling sound like Sethe's sons
make when they tumble in hay or splash in rainwater. His feet are cooking; the cloth of his trousers smokes. He laughs.
Something is funny. Paul D guesses what it is when Sixo interrupts his laughter to call out, Seven-O! Seven-O! — Toni Morrison

Then he told Perry that love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and the earth and everything in between. — Veronica Rossi

dedication Sometimes I wish I were an architect, so that I could dedicate a building to a person; a superstructure that broke the clouds and continued up into the abyss. And if Bird Box were made of bricks instead of letters, I'd host a ceremony, invite every shadowy memory I have, and cut the ribbon with an axe, letting everyone see for the first time that building's name. It'd be called the Debbie. Mom, Bird Box is for you. — Josh Malerman

But I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well. — Shuntaro Tanikawa

I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intrigues. — Julian Ovenden