Pochoda's Quotes

#1. Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda's voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it's indelibly her own.

Dennis Lehane

#2. We let people invent us as they please, he thinks. The truth we keep to ourselves.

Ivy Pochoda

#3. While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

Claire Cameron

#4. The more I lose, the more they believe they can beat me. But believing is not enough, you still have to beat me.

Roger Federer

#5. Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

Simon Schama

#6. To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing ...

Sylvia Plath

#8. Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

Bob Marley

#9. The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

Bryan Cogman

#10. Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.

Sri Chinmoy

#11. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

Robert Byrd