Wanderings By Poppie Quotes

#1. Can you become a man without becoming your father?

Hisham Matar

#2. when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;

Umberto Eco

#3. Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.

Jeff VanderMeer

#4. Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.

Mary Balogh

#5. We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

Ruth Rendell

#6. It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way.

Gorillaz

#7. Trace listened to the story, but how could he get excited? Francis had no powers that would let him re-create a brush with death - particularly in the atmosphere of a commuting train, journeying through a sunny countryside where already, in the slum gardens, there were signs of harvest.

John Cheever

#8. Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.

Melody Beattie

#9. Oh, but I am. And when we get home, we're gonna have that talk about power all over again.

J.A. Huss