Yonette Sam Buchanan Quotes

#1. Tell me, Peppone, what other talents do you have besides erasing undesirables?"
"I enjoy a fair bit of sneaking, sir. I also enjoy pilfering and killing as a professional courtesy."
"What a delightfully horrid urchin you are."
"Thank you, sir.

Michelle Franklin

#2. A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Daniel Handler

#3. The mechanics vary from place to place and from office to office. The handling of SBUs can be different in the same agency just across the hall, one from another. There are virtually no standards.

Ted Gup

#4. Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

Pedro Martinez

#5. Rich people's garbage was every year more complex, rife with hybrid materials, impurities, impostors. Planks that looked like wood were shot through with plastic. How was he to classify a loofah? The owners of the recycling plants demanded waste that was all one thing, pure.

Katherine Boo

#6. The hard thing about waiting is the not knowing how it's going to go. That's what makes me really crazy.

Donna Cooner

#7. With social media, with Instagram and selfies and all these apps that are trying to make you look perfect ... it's hard for girls to grow up nowadays with all that stuff.

Meghan Trainor

#8. I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

Julian Assange

#9. It won't hurt me. This will be scary, but it won't hurt me--But fear hurt, too.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

Bella Thorne

#11. People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.

Chelsea Cain

#12. I think I ought to cut my hair off," said Maia, one morning, as she tore yet another tooth out of Finn's comb.
"No. That's a bad idea."
Maia looked up, surprised. "But you wanted Clovis to cut his hair."
"That was different.

Eva Ibbotson