Tween Text Quotes & Sayings

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming? ... — Eudora Welty

I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard. — Sarah Hall

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. — Oscar Wilde

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. — Armand Hammer

In a land that knew only dark beauty, she was something of a hybrid no one dared touch. But the tall Arab did not appear in the least daunted by her abnormality. No, she saw his eyes. He was not daunted in the least. — V.S. Carnes

As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he died of AIDS. Would I and my brother have been able to resist the lure of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows. — Sonia Sotomayor

I am going to hell. Not passing go. Just straight to hell. — Melanie Murray

She studied him for a few more seconds. "You
look too pretty to be useful."
I gasped in spite of myself. Adrian chuckled and
shook her hand.
"Truer words were never spoken," he said. — Richelle Mead

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them to hang myself."
"My mother did the embroidery," Bittterblue said.
Katsa clapped her mouth shut and glared at Helda. "Thank you, Helda, for mentioning that detail. — Kristin Cashore

I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure. — Tananarive Due