Tokita Niko Quotes

#1. Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

Maria Semple

#2. A false tale often betrays itself.

Aesop

#3. In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

Carol P. Christ

#4. I agreed with him that there wasnt a whole lot good you could say about old age and he said he knew one thing and I said what is that. And he said it dont last long. I waited for him to smile but he didnt.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

Sue Grafton

#6. But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

Parminder Nagra

#7. The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

Connie Zweig

#8. I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story.

Nikki Giovanni