Mauveine Dye Quotes

#1. Listeners are kind of ambushed ... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.

Billy Collins

#2. The policeman move up the line saying, You can't fuck, go home. You can't fuck neither remove youself. You look like you can fuck, stay. You go, you go. Hold on, hold on now, you move like is you the one who getting the fucking. Batty boy, remove youself, and you, you better stay.

Marlon James

#3. Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up.

Paul Engle

#4. To write a book, we must write with our whole life, not just during the moments we are sitting at our desk. When writing a book or an article, we know that our words will affect many other people. We do not have the right just to express our own suffering if it brings suffering to others.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#5. When it hurts, don't be afraid to say ouch!

Mary Buchan

#6. The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.

Brigid Berlin

#7. Ellie looked over at him, and her stomach fluttered. They'd only just found each other again. And for the first time in a long time, there was still so much to say.

Jennifer E. Smith

#8. The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

Ingrid Newkirk

#9. I love being from Wisconsin.

Tanya Fischer

#10. Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

W.B.Yeats

#11. I'm a witch woman
high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts ... I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.

Sandra Cisneros

#12. I think often there is no good way out of something. No nice, easy ending or neat resolution, no clear way to set things right. That works in stories, in children's fairy tales, but not in real life. Nothing everything can be fixed. And perhaps not everything should be.

Elana K. Arnold