3rd Culture Quotes

#1. I want people to have permission to know me, not unlimited constant access to me.

Katie Kacvinsky

#2. The titles are born, worn, discarded, forgotten, and none of them matter.

George R R Martin

#3. Maybe the hardest thing about moving over seas was being in a place where no one but your own family had any memory of you. It was like putting yourself back together in little pieces.

Naomi Shibab Nye

#4. The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

Ha-Joon Chang

#5. I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#6. There were fissures and chasms in the walls and floor, and every now and then a crack would open right before their feet. The widest was more than seven feet across, and it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap over the dreadful gap.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. I admired him from afar, like a really amazing piece of art that you only see in photographs or behind glass in a museum. So we affectionately referred to him as Handsome McHotpants; more accurately, Elizabeth and I knighted him Sir Handsome McHotpants one night after drinking too many mojitos.

Penny Reid

#8. Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!

Marcel Proust

#9. The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

Neal Shusterman

#10. A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

Gertrude Stein

#11. Break me into pieces,
Small enough to fit
In the palm of your hand, baby.
I never thought that you would save me,
break a piece
for your friends
break a piece
just for luck
break a piece
sell it sell it
break me break me.

Maggie Stiefvater