Jitske Rooskens Quotes

#1. We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. I'd be doing it to screw the literary world. Those bastards all huddle in their gloomy cave and kiss each other's asses, and lick each other's wounds, and trip each other up, all the while spewing this pompous crap about the mission of literature.

Haruki Murakami

#3. See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

John Milton

#4. Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and ... we're alcoholics, aren't we?

Jimmy Fallon

#5. There's no reason to be uncomfortable."
"I'm not uncomfortable. I'm just feeling weird, and I don't know how to un-weird myself."
"Well, don't un-weird yourself on my account. I like you weird.

Penny Reid

#6. To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

Josephine Hart

#7. I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

Jemaine Clement

#8. No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?

Kyan Douglas

#9. These poems possess intelligence, erudition, gravitas and urgency. Serious and moving in voice and ambition, this passionately lyrical and articulate work reminds me very much of the capacious, fierce and intelligent work of Adrienne Rich.

Tony Hoagland

#10. History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

Mahatma Gandhi