Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Quotes

#1. Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. A one-word book does appeal to me.

Kode9

#3. Your ultimate life experience and legacy is being built moment by moment, day by day. Your story is being crafted by your every action, all leading somewhere, all leading to what one hopes will be a magnificent crescendo.

Brendon Burchard

#4. Because we tend to equate intelligence with language
particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions
it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.

Linda Bender

#5. If you want to change the world, you must first change yourself.

Gloria Burgess

#6. I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.

Andrew Peterson

#7. You know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.
I looked at him.
He said, "her punishment is being her,

Curtis Sittenfeld

#8. I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'

Cilla Black

#9. I really did love you." Leaving out the unsaid word, once.
"Me, too." Once.

Katie McGarry