Yesss Wreck Quotes & Sayings

Even a painful longing is some form of presence. — Anna Kamienska

The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable. — F.T. McKinstry

Red will be made white
Darkness shall become light
Faith will be made sight
Squire shall become knight — Bryan Davis

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. — Matt Haig

A good rival is almost like a friend, isn't she? You make me try harder. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. This is not easy, for our old thought patterns cling to us with great tenacity, but, being thought patterns, they can be reversed. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear. — Ernest Holmes

She's kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she's turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a species named after her. Once Uncle Julian told me how the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti said that sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.
My mother did not choose a leaf or a head. She chose my father. And to hold on to a certain feeling, she sacrificed the world. — Nicole Krauss

Amelia the bright-sider believes it is better to be alone than to be with someone who doesn't share your sensibilities and interests. — Gabrielle Zevin

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer. — Dana Spiotta

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers. — Mitch Albom