Essex Hemphill Quotes

#1. I'm dying twice as fast
as any other American
between eighteen and thirty-five
This disturbs me,
but I try not to show it in public.

Essex Hemphill

#2. Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

Steve Maraboli

#3. God will always have a church on earth; but he never said it should be infallible, or perfectly pure from corruption on this side heaven.

Matthew Henry

#4. In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

Jeff Bezos

#5. Social media really grew up.

Kevin Rose

#6. I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.

Steven Spielberg

#7. One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

John Andrew Rice

#8. Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

Amanda Eliasch

#9. Only his hair is the same: that auburn crown, like leaves in autumn. Impossible. I close my eyes and reopen them: the boy from a dream, from a different lifetime. A boy brought back from the dead. Alex.

Lauren Oliver