Merilyn Quotes

#1. Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory ... these aren't just the stories of one life; here are the patterns found in all our lives, richly celebrated.

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

#2. If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

Patrick Ness

#3. Great material progress has not been matched by great spiritual progress. Quite the opposite. Indeed, from this point of view perhaps man has never been so poor as since he became so rich.
Letters against the war: Letter from the Himalayas, 2008.

Tiziano Terzani

#4. There is no aloneness. There is only unawareness.

Lynne Cockrum-Murphy

#5. No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.

Merilyn Simonds

#6. Now everything is always getting better. Every morning when I wake up, I thank God that I'm not waking up in a hospital anymore and that I have the most supportive family and friends ever.

Amy Rankin

#7. The obsessions with eloquence and general knowledge would appear to be ones that emerged with our generation, probably in the wake of Mr Marshall, when lesser men trying to emulate his greatness mistook the superficial for the essence.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#8. My books are my brain and my heart made visible.

Merilyn Simonds

#9. Okay, when you smile at me like that, I want to climb. And God knows it's been forever since I've been properly manhandled.

Christina Lauren