Annecy Gilbert Quotes

#1. This is not a lie: Memory has the taste and texture of cooked meat. Eat it and live. Remember, but only what it is licit to remember.

In Aerograd, the word for meat and memory are the same.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. How the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?!

Allen Iverson

#3. It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

Marc Jacobs

#4. You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it.

Linda Howard

#5. Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Samuel Johnson

#6. I'm superstitious.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

#7. I felt better for having met her.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Because it is so hard, some people wait until they are in their thirties, forties, fifties, or even older before breaking their silence.

Erin Merryn

#9. You humans love mirrors. You have to constantly make sure you still have the same face. Nothing scares you more than if someone changes it.

Cornelia Funke

#10. To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Amos Bronson Alcott