Lula Stephine Plum Quotes

#1. If there's no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

Heidi W. Durrow

#2. What a contrast - the person sitting at the table gets this nice cake on a doilied plate, while the pantry man back there with the stubby thumbs is saying, 'Damn deez doilies!'" So that was the difference between the real world and what it looked like.

Richard Feynman

#3. The sun rose. Flowers bloomed. People even continued to talk to me as if I weren't a complete failure, as if they didn't know or possibly -- unthinkably -- didn't care. Life went on. I think that's when I realized that it's all bullshit.

Johnny B. Truant

#4. To separate meditation from prayer, reading and contemplation is to falsify our picture of the monastic way of prayer. In proportion as meditation takes on a more contemplative character, we see that it is not only a means to an end, but also has something of the nature of an end.

Thomas Merton

#5. There is something about eating animals that tends to polarize: never eat them or never sincerely question eating them; become an activist or disdain activists.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. He traveled in order to come home.

William Trevor

#7. I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting.

Tracy Morgan

#8. I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

Amy Tan

#9. I smell vampire" -Lula
"You're a Nut" -Stephine
"Well I smell something." -Lula
"Mold." -Stephine
"Yeah. I smell moldy vampire" -Lula

Janet Evanovich

#10. There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

Kofi Annan