Pizarsky Quotes

#1. So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he'd said it: "I was a poet." As if the poet had died. He was hiding, perhaps.

Helen Oyeyemi

#2. Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. In the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

Wallace Stevens

#4. Like most Turkish men of my world who entered into this predicament, I never paused to wonder what might be going on in the mind of the woman with whom I was madly in love, and what her dreams might be; I only fantasized about her.

Orhan Pamuk

#5. My name Quan. Quan Nguyen. This Kim-Ly, wife. We next door. Do nails. We with Mr. Blaylock. He fight, we fight. We come here from Viet Nam. This good country, but sometimes, good people in good country have to fight.

Dan Groat

#6. I guess other people's compliments motivate you.

Benjamin Stockham

#7. When we are rested, we notice desires as well as lies buried in our souls.

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

#8. Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.

Markus Zusak