Sendiks Franklin Quotes

#1. Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25

Edwidge Danticat

#2. That a person who did something for somebody's gratitude was more like a 2-D cutout image of a person than a bona fide person.

David Foster Wallace

#3. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

Neil Gaiman

#4. It is rare, though becoming more common with age that I am put into situations where I only half-heartedly balance on acting and being myself...a real nice dinner, relatives, etc.

Wesley Eisold

#5. After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself.

Craig Thompson

#6. Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.

Ben Lovett

#7. If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.

Laozi