Ybon Quotes & Sayings

Story guys are like life highlighters. Your life is all these big blocks of gray text, and then a story guy comes in with a big ol' paragraph of neon pink so that when you flip back through your life, you can stop and remember all the important and interesting places. — Mary Ann Rivers

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun. — Isadora Duncan

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. — Oscar Wilde

She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba. — Junot Diaz

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. — Christopher Hitchens

Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life. — Junot Diaz

We all make mistakes. That's why my pencil has an eraser. — Chris Grabenstein

It loves more readily than it hates. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way. — George R R Martin

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination. — Terry Brooks

He's really jealous, Ybon said rather weakly. Just have him meet me, Oscar said. I make all boyfriends feel better about themselves. — Junot Diaz