Yasha Mounk Quotes & Sayings

All millionaires love a baked apple. — Ronald Firbank

all that he had ever been, at every moment of his life, was being transferred to safer keeping. Even as one David Bowman ceased to exist, another became immortal. — Arthur C. Clarke

I have a disease called can't keep your fucking mouth shut. — Tarryn Fisher

Those are the bad guys, right?"
"Depends on who wins, I guess. — Shannon A. Thompson

What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells? — Juliana Hatfield

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation. — Anne Roiphe

Wherever you go, there you are. — Terri Ferran

I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats. — Elizabeth Janeway

She said she couldn't handle it," he told me. "I'm about to lose my eyesight and she can't handle it."
I was thinking about the word "handle," and all the unholdable things that get handled. "I'm sorry," I said.
"Well, to be fair," I said, "I mean she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have to handle it. And you do. — John Green

I have chiseled features. Look. Look how chiseled they are. And my teeth are at least as white as his. You seriously think he's good-lookin'?"
"I do," said Tanith.
"Right," Sanguine said and nodded. "I'm gonna kill him."
She kept her laugh soft so it wouldn't travel. "I think he's good-looking, but I think you're better looking."
"Oh," Sanguine said. "I mean, yeah. I am. I'm glad you noticed. — Derek Landy

Greeting the ageing self In trying to depathologize age, we need to make an important distinction, between resisting ageism (stereotyping or discriminating on the basis of age) and resisting age itself. The first opens the door to a path of rich potential, freeing us to keep on developing and changing, while the second closes it, condemning us to an endless attempt to recover the irretrievable. — Anne Karpf

Now I smile. "How's everything with you?" I call down cheerfully. This takes them aback, but I know the crowd will love it. — Suzanne Collins

It's like there's this wave coming toward me, but there's nothing I can do about it. And then it reaches me, crashes over me and ... and I'm done for another day. I just give up. Give in to it. Because how do you stop a wave?
You don't. And you're wise to recognize your powerlessness to do so. But what you can do is learn how to negotiate this wave. Work within the context of its inevitability. — Wally Lamb

I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me. — Gayle Forman