Yazkara Quotes & Sayings

Penelope did not understand how this [study] group was ever formed. It consisted only of her mortal enemies. However, these were things you seemed to put aside during exam period. — Rebecca Harrington

I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet
buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture
than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order. — Mary Karr

In the glare, the great and terrible light of this happening, God seems to signal that the story of the rest of us need not end, and that the new light can prove a troubled dawn.
For the rest of us, perhaps. Not for the dead, not for the more than fifty million real dead in the world's worst catastrophe: victors and vanquished, combatants and civilians, people of so many nations, men, women, and children, all cut down. For them there can be no new earthly dawn. Yet thought their bones like in the darkness of the grave, they will not have died in vain, if their remembrance can lead us from the long, long time of war to the time for peace. — Herman Wouk

Never apologize for being nerdy, because unnerdy people never apologize for being assholes. — John Barrowman

You think saving someone's life cancels out taking another person's life? In terms of fate and circumstance, yes. In terms of retribution and contrition, no. — Cassia Leo

Rita was almost as badly damaged as I am. — Jeff Lindsay

Do you ever wake up in the morning and ask yourself 'Do I want to be amazing today? — Ben McConnell

What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading. — Carmela Dutra

DeVante. Khalil. Neither one of them thought they had much of a choice. If I were them, I'm not sure I'd make a much better one. Guess that makes me a thug too. — Angie Thomas

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship. — Hill Harper

Each sunrise brings a new day filled with new hopes for a new beginning. — Debasish Mridha