Wytske Fokkens Quotes & Sayings

Joe might have called that place godforsaken but I could see a whole lot of proof that if there was a God, He'd been there. — Vikki Wakefield

I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine.
I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book. — Kathryn Stockett

I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book - third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time. — Robin Sloan

Dear God, I must be dead and in hell since you're here. — Catherine Coulter

The sad reality is that girl-on-girl hate is such a big issue in schools, at work, or online, and it never made any sense to me because, as women, we know how awesome other women can be. — Lilly Singh

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children. — William Poundstone

turning men into dribbling, fumbling jackasses and controlling the world and shit." "Controlling — Laekan Zea Kemp

Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform. — Leo Durocher

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves. — Zoe Lister-Jones

Between the whiskers scraggling down his neck and the now-crooked glasses, he could have been the Black Allen Ginsberg. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves. — Gabby Douglas

I haven't felt the full weight
of the world on my shoulders,
and I haven't experienced
a fraction of the pain
and embarrassment I've put out into this great big
white world. — Kris Kidd

On our garden walks Mama always used to tell me, 'Angels live in gardens, Darcy.' 'Where?' I would ask, looking around for the white-winged beings I saw drawn on my Sunday school papers.
'Close your eyes and breathe deep.'
'All is smell is flowers, Mama,' I would say.
'Not so. That's the breath of the angels. And the stirrings you hear in the leaves are their wings brushing past. — Lurlene McDaniel