"In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!"

-- Ali Liebegott

#Book Quotes #Class Quotes #World Quotes

“I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.”
“I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.”
“I'm so much more than just Angelina [Jolie's] brother. I'm also Jon Voight's son and Billy Bob Thorton's brother-in-law.”
“I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.”
“Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age”

Source : Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”
“All of the good, weird stories Iâ€™ve written are based on things Iâ€™ve dredged out of my subconscious. Thatâ€™s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.”
“In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.”
“You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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