Felisberto Hernandez Quotes

#1. Across the rectory's east lawn, through a blizzard of flying leaves, something long and thin was flapping in the wind. A ragged figure in a white nightgown hanging lifelessly from the trees.

Cash Peters

#2. I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.

Amber Riley

#3. I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.

Felisberto Hernandez

#4. I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.

George Jung

#5. Then we fucked so that we could pretend that nothing hurtful had just happened.

Junot Diaz

#6. How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

Pat McBride