Irmela Bender Quotes

#1. Olive thought she had forgotten what pain could be. She was a railway tunnel in which a battering train had come to a fiery halt. She was a burrow in which a creature had wedged itself and could go neither forwards nor back.

A.S. Byatt

#2. We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

Anthony Burgess

#3. I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

Andre Dubus

#4. If we want to be able to pick up the pieces of our lives and go on living, we have to get over the irrational
feeling that every misfortune is our fault, the direct result of our mistakes or misbehavior. We are really not that powerful. Not everything
that happens in the world is our doin

Harold S. Kushner

#5. Getting married is a serious matter for a girl; not getting married is even more serious.

Nicolas Bentley

#6. Guy took out his mobile phone and said something into it. Then he looked around, like he was making sure the coast was clear, and started walking down the Mall in the direction

Rick Riordan

#7. If you're reading this book, it means you're more fortunate than the nearly one billion people in the world who can't read, many of whom will be stuck in a life of poverty.

Anonymous

#8. I had hoped for a pinch of metaphor.

Barbara Kingsolver

#9. Sisters and brothers just happen, we don't get to choose them, but they become one of our most cherish relationships.

Wes Adamson