Dafina Publishing Quotes

#1. 'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

Aaron Tveit

#2. Success finally becomes a function of how one responds to what is happening around us!

Anuranjita Kumar

#3. Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.

Joanne Greenberg

#4. Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me, now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass. So that by my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends, I am abused. So

William Shakespeare

#5. Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years.

Gore Vidal

#6. Don't you understand?" he would say, "You imagine the story better than I remember it.

John Irving

#7. Ix-nay!" I hissed at him. "Ix-nay!" I didn't know why I resorted to Pig Latin right then. It just seemed like the thing to do.

T.J. Klune

#8. In my experience the most forceful and aggressive mothers are always the least inspired, the most unmusical of souls, all of them profoundly unsuccessful women who wear their daughter's image on their breast like a medal, like a bright deflection from their own unshining selves.

Eleanor Catton

#9. Yes, this planet is in a terrible mess. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any "Good Old Days," there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, "Don't look at me. I just got here.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. You are right, I do fall down a lot.
But that wouldn't be true if I never stood back up.

Richelle E. Goodrich