Lewis Nordan Quotes

#1. i freaking LOVE the warriors i will cry,laugh,

Erin Hunter

#2. History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

Norman O. Brown

#3. When I was your age I knew how to listen to television and learn a few things.

Lewis Nordan

#4. Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised.

Lewis Nordan

#5. There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

Lewis Nordan

#6. writing is a sustained act of empathy.

Andre Dubois

#7. Self-blame is usually a way of avoiding something more hideous anyway, something you're willing to be punished for but unwilling to change, or even something terrible in the imperfect structure of the universe.

Lewis Nordan

#8. Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

Lewis Nordan

#10. Birds are waterproof.

Lewis Nordan

#11. Uncle said, If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him.

Lewis Nordan

#12. I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

Mos Def

#13. There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

Rick Yancey

#14. Belief and disbelief were the same creature within me.

Lewis Nordan

#15. There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

Lewis Nordan

#16. A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train.

Lewis Nordan

#17. There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.

Jodi Picoult

#18. Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Gary Gilmore

#19. I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.

Julia Kent

#20. Berkeley should be a haven for everyone, yet we should be wary of predators and thugs who drain our energy and take advantage of the institutions we've helped to create and sustain.

Aaron Cometbus

#21. The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.

Lewis Nordan