Vanishing Acts Quotes

#1. The lonlier your path is, the brighter your future will be.

Omer Abazi

#2. Everyone omes with a label, it's up to you to peel it off. pg.155 Vanishing Acts

Jodi Picoult

#3. Whate'er we leave to God,
God does and blesses us.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Only the future is certain ... the past is always changing.

Douglas Schofield

#5. There are building blocks of love and the very bottom layer is comfort. (from Vanishing Acts)

Jodi Picoult

#6. The planet is finished with us, at this point -

Zadie Smith

#7. If you don't want somwone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

Jodi Picoult

#8. Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

Kathy Acker

#9. At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one. (from Vanishing Acts)

Jodi Picoult

#10. Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

#11. When you let people into the inner sanctum of your life, you risk having them see the heart of you. (from Vanishing Acts)

Jodi Picoult

#12. On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies. Teenage girls with burst ovarian cysts nodded out on morphine. It was all around me from the beginning, the weight of female suffering, with its biblical justification and vanishing acts.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#13. I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#14. A man like that fucks like he rides. With intimidation, recklessness, and unharnessed energy. He's powered by adrenaline and takes what he wants without care.

Pam Godwin

#15. I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.

Kelly Price

#16. Play isn't doing what we want, but doing what we can with the materials we find along the way.

Ian Bogost