Ondariva Quotes

#1. In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the plants on the ground opened up stars of fretted leaves like the green skins of reptiles, and waved feathery yellow bamboos with a rustle like paper.

Italo Calvino

#2. If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

#3. If you're not scared of the dark, it hasn't been dark enough.

Ashly Lorenzana

#4. And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

P.B. Kerr

#5. Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment

Michel De Montaigne

#6. I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.

Imani Hakim

#7. A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

Gina B. Nahai

#8. I heard those words that every woman fears and never wants to hear, You have breast cancer,

Joan Lunden