Vijandren Quotes & Sayings

I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes. — Jim Carrey

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. — William Trevor

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. — John Fowles

It's not that people are mean or cruel, they're just busy. — Austin Kleon

Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils. — Margaret Atwood

And if there is anything that appears like a miracle, the only explanation is that a scientific reason for it has not been discovered as yet. — Amish Tripathi

This is what makes me crazy in this family, Dad. I don't care that you hit us. I really don't. That's over and there's nothing any of us can do about it. But I can't stand it when I state a simple fact about this family's history and I'm told by you or Mom that it didn't happen. But you've got to know, Dad, and I'm saying this as a son who loves you, that you were a shit to your kids. Not all the time. Not every day. Not every month. But we never knew what would set you off. We never knew when your temper would explode and we'd have the strongest shrimper on the river knocking us around the house. So we learned to be afraid without making a sound. And Mom was a loyal wife to you, Dad. She would never let us tell a soul that you were hitting us. Most of the time, she was like you and would simply tell us it didn't happen the way we remembered it. — Pat Conroy

The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place of revelation and isolation. Your form, your body, your writing is your confinement. — Gerald Stern