Denise Demarchis Quotes

#1. Christopher Columbus said we cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline.

Jack Kruse

#2. If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

Amy Bloom

#3. We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

Elizabeth Chandler

#4. Clara wore a dress of brown and cream velvet, and her feathered mask, in comparison, made her look like a sparrow

Malinda Lo

#5. This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

Morrissey

#6. I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

Muhammad Abduh

#7. [Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. 'Thirteen Orphans' is the name of a specific limit hand. The same combination is also called 'Thirteen Improbable.' Once I'd decided I wanted to write a tale where mah-jong would be at the heart, I also knew I wanted to use limit hands.

Jane Lindskold

#9. Real friends tell you the truth ... even when you want them to shut up.

Wes Fesler