Elenita Los Armadillos Quotes

#1. What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#2. Whatever you do, don't make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.

Jaleigh Johnson

#3. Don't learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Sherry Argov

#4. Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God's personal plan for our lives.

Ray Stedman

#5. The easiest thing about writing a book is coming up with the idea. We all have tons of great ideas for books, right? The issues come AFTER we have the great idea.

Jean Nicole Rivers

#6. Every time I dream, you are present in them and every time I open my eyes and see you next to me it seems like I am still dreaming.

Auliq Ice

#7. Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#8. He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin
it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.

Melissa Bank

#9. Courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.

Elizabeth Samet

#10. I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

Anne Sexton

#11. Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

Nancy Hale