Top 29 Michiko Quotes
#1. Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.
Robert Galbraith
#2. When does someone love you enough to put you before himself? Had I done so with Michiko?
Deborah Baldwin
#3. You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
Beau Willimon
#4. They call it mourning. And I think that was the reason he tried so hard to be someone who functioned. By holding on to how things had always been, he was mourning what was missing.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#5. How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#6. What is everlasting? We are fireworks. Glowing bright and fading, we scatter sparks that soon die out.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#7. Oh the sweet air in Narnia! An hour's life there is better than a thousand years in Calormen.
C.S. Lewis
#8. She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage. But she knew that she loved him. She needed him. He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away.
Karin Slaughter
#10. But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
Tim O'Brien
#11. Growing up signifies a loss. You think you are winning. Really you are losing yourself.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#13. But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
Wole Soyinka
#14. It's just like unraveling a tangle when you don't know where the knots are, and you don't know what the web looks like. But as you work on one section, it is connected to everything.
Kamailelauli'I Rafaelovich
#15. The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged the delusion that candor, daring and shamelessness are substitutes for craft, that the exposed life is the same thing as an examined one.
Michiko Kakutani
#16. He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#18. What happened to the little blond girls who used to run around this place?" Mummy sighs. "We grew up, Dad," she says. "We grew up." ========== We Were Liars (Lockhart, E.)
Anonymous
#19. He thrashed like a freshly caught fish as the sucking sounds of draining water gurgled from the pooling blood in his mouth.
Michiko Katsu
#20. First, check your ammunition. Then, check your escape routes. Finally, check your hair. - Frances Brown
Seanan McGuire
#23. He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.
Ransom Riggs
#24. I say every dog looks like no other
but that isn't true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery.
Mary Jo Bang
#25. The ruler who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects to be ruled by him, although the present governors of mankind are of a different stamp.
Plato
#26. What you don't do, what you omit, often has more painful consequences than what you do.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#27. I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.
Mark Twain
#28. How to describe the bitterness? I was a glass, broken, and the space I once enclosed was now the same as the space around. Deserted space, in which I was lost, sharp knives under my feet. With each step it became less likely that I would ever get anywhere.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#29. Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.
Abigail Thomas
