Lightbound Webmail Quotes

#1. We didn't have an indigenous Taliban before 2008. We didn't have a war in Swat before 2008, we didn't have a war in Waziristan. We never, in our 63-year history, we have never allowed unmanned Predator drones from ANY country to fly over our skies and kill our citizens.

Fatima Bhutto

#2. Always be yourself.
There is nothing else you can be. How can you be not yourself? How could you be something else than what you are?

Helena Kalivoda

#3. Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.

Jenna Blum

#4. Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

Jacques Barzun

#5. Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Sarah Churchwell

#6. Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close.

Francis Weller

#7. I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

Rodney Brooks