Stiina Saaristo Quotes

#1. My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

Caitlin Flanagan

#2. Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Amy Lowell

#3. In my sort of young, idealistic mind, I was just like, 'Well, it's either theater or film for me, and that will be that!'

Gillian Jacobs

#4. By 2003 he had begun to worry that powerful countries were pursuing their own security in ways that aggravated their peril. He

Samantha Power

#5. Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.

Paul Johnson

#6. I snicker at my joke. Dude, if ya can't crack yourself up, ain't never gonna crack anybody else up.

Karen Marie Moning

#7. Sure you can do anything when talking or writing, it's not like living when you can only do what you doing.

Sapphire.

#8. He didn't know what he was going to - but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.

J.K. Rowling

#9. Don't let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose.

Elizabeth George

#10. I take it we're friends now," Henry said.
"We must be," Gansey replied. "Jane says it should be so."
"It should be so," Blue agreed.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. Fear is a hurdle that stops the expression

Andy Lindley

#12. During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkiness long enough to know what a Promised Land would be like, or, to put it another way, what it means to be saved
which, if we are to believe Jesus or Gandhi, specifically means to see everyone on earth as family.

Anne Lamott

#13. The text illustrates the pictures - it provides a connective tissue for me. I usually refine the text last, partly because pictures are harder to do, so it's easier to edit words - I use text as grout in between the tiles of the pictures.

Shaun Tan

#14. There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.

Daniel Handler