Tremare Le Quotes & Sayings

These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went off. The bomb was going to become the story of this city. That's how we lose the city - that's how our knowledge of what the world is is taken away from us - when what we know is blasted into rubble and what is created in its place bears no resemblance to what there was and we are left strangers in a place we knew, in a place we ought to have known. — Bilal Tanweer

I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too? — Laurie Halse Anderson

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you. — Susan Minot

An idea which can be used once is a trick. If it can be used more than once it becomes a method. — George Polya

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life. — Katherine Paterson

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. — Mark Twain

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can. — Elizabeth Edwards

...she prefers to think in similitudes rather than reason things out... — J.M. Coetzee