Ezzati Fatemeh Quotes

#1. Certainly, I read a lot and follow the news. But as a writer, I am not interested in a political story. I am searching for the humanity of the characters. I never set out to write a book about an 'issue.'

Cristina Henriquez

#2. Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#3. The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother's heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music, too.

Gene Weingarten

#4. The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy seneless with his own drumsticks.

Dana Reinhardt

#5. A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. Mine, mine. Fear, idolatry, hoarding. The delight and terror of the fetishist.

Donna Tartt

#7. That morning, awkward and heavy...

Natasha Trethewey

#8. The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#9. Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Horace