Quotes About Nan's Death

#1. Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

Carrie Fisher

#2. Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

Jennifer Aniston

#3. To be is to be the value of a variable.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#4. She didn't want to be one of those old ladies obsessed with death, hearing it in every tick of the clock and creak of the floorboards, as if it were prowling around the house like a burglar

Stewart O'Nan

#5. Poor little girl. Poor little girl, Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born.

Philippa Gregory

#6. In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it's no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we're worth

Ellen Stern

#7. It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.

Doris Lessing

#8. My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in Staten Island following Eric Garner's death.

Al Sharpton

#9. My capacity for vanishing into whatever shadows happen to be around is a hard-won and precious skill.

John Darnielle