Natsukawa Kuina Quotes

#1. Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

Philip Pullman

#2. I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.

Rachel Nichols

#3. I can't cheer up - I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

L.M. Montgomery

#4. They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins.

Ransom Riggs

#5. I'll follow thee and make a heaven out of hell, To die by your hand which I love so well." - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Maegan Abel

#6. I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to have access to, their multi-dimensionality at every moment. That doesn't imply people aren't multi-dimensional.

Ben Lerner

#7. In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words: from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading.

Rick Perlstein

#8. In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

Ismail Haniyeh

#9. For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

Cornel West