Bina Quotes

#1. Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman.

Michael Chabon

#2. Bina rolls her eyes, hands on her hips, glances at the door. Then she comes over and drops her bag and plops down beside him. How many times, he wonders, can she have enough of him, already, and still have not quite enough?

Michael Chabon

#3. He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith.

Michael Chabon

#4. Bina and Landsman were twisted together, a braided pair of chromosomes with a mystery flaw. And now? Now each of them pretends not to see the other and looks away.
Landsman looks away.

Michael Chabon

#5. You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals

Ian Paisley

#6. I kept my eyes closed until I felt my resolve to be who I wanted to be come back. I couldn't stay this desperate. It wouldn't look good to people watching from the outside.

Natalie Bina

#7. It's crazy to think that people can appreciate your presence in their lives not because of what you've accomplished or what they've gotten out of knowing you, but just because you're present.

Natalie Bina

#8. Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or do arises from our mind. What our consciousness consumes becomes the substance of our life, so we have to be very careful which nutriments we ingest.

Nhat Hanh

#9. You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.

Margaret Bourke-White

#10. Travel spoils you for regular life.

Bill Barich

#11. The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive.

Dave Pelzer

#12. What kind of maggot grows in the corpse of a day?

Zach Hall

#13. And then he leaned forward and my stomach collapsed, taking in that last breath. I closed my eyes and watched in awe as all the butterflies flew up into the sky, free, mingling with the exploding lights.

Natalie Bina

#14. He has given me exactly ten Fritos and then secreted away the bag. He doesn't like the smell; it offends him, he says, but what he really doesn't like is my weight.

Gillian Flynn

#15. There is a world of chances out there, Emmaline! We live in a world full of amazing chances, and you just walk away from them without even looking back.

Natalie Bina

#16. The girl. Was that who I was? I was the girl just like they were the boys. Was that how we were going to address each other for the entirety of this year? How family-feeling.

Natalie Bina

#17. J Abrams was driving off into the big stupid vermilion sky, and even though the color had been my favorite, I was sure that from now on, every time I looked at it I would feel nothing but sadness.

Natalie Bina