Colleen Mcelroy Quotes

#1. I had been born into a sort of democracy in which for ten years Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif kept replacing each other, none of their governments ever completing a term and always accusing each other of corruption.

Malala Yousafzai

#2. Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

Jeff Tweedy

#3. we are all strangers / bound by the same spirits

Colleen J. McElroy

#4. aloneness is a bad fiddle I play against my own / burning

Colleen J. McElroy

#5. Gotanda swung by at either-forty. He was wearing a perfectly ordinary gray V-neck sweater over a perfectly ordinary blue button-down shirt with- you got it - perfectly ordinary cotton slacks. And still he looked striking. Extraordinarily so.

Haruki Murakami

#6. We are each other's guardians.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail.

John Sayles

#8. This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump.

Virginia Woolf