Viscerally Def Quotes & Sayings

But the girl shook her head, clucked her tongue in distaste. 'If I marry him, my children will be ugly,' she declared.

That night, lying next to Edward in his room, Yaw listened as his best friend told him that he had explained to the girl that you could not inherit a scar.

Now, nearing his fiftieth birthday, Yaw no longer knew if he believed this was true. — Yaa Gyasi

Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art. — Neil Gaiman

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity. — John Updike

Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful. — Tom Shadyac

But it was hard to be happy when the day smelled like a big pot of I-hate-your-guts. — Therese Walsh

Grace is a great mercy of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When we looked at God's wisdom, we saw something of his mind; when we thought of his power, we saw something of his hand and his arm; when we considered his word, we learned about his mouth; but now, contemplating his love, we are to look into his heart. — J.I. Packer

Praise and recognition based upon performance are the oxygen of the human spirit — John Adair

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us. — Gillian Cross

Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not. — Kay Redfield Jamison