Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming Quotes

#1. Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it.

R.C. Sproul

#2. Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

Eoin Colfer

#3. I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

Paul Schneider

#4. And when it comes to gettin nookie, I'm not a rookie ...
I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopi.

Big L

#5. It was left to Nancy and me to pick up the pieces that my brother had become; to resurrect his shrunken spirit and pull his pale tear-stained face from beneath his pillow and give sense to a world that had given him none; he loved, yet he wasn't loved back.

Sarah Winman

#6. His eyes flame, and his breathing increases. Twisted as it is, I find that I'm getting off on his fury. The angrier he gets, the more aroused I become.

Ella Frank

#7. In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

Olivia Colman

#8. I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

John McGahern