"Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have turned to liquid and their fingers glint under the weak autumn sun."

-- Jenny Downham

#Autumn Quotes #Want Quotes #Sun Quotes

“In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.”
“If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.”
“The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.”

Source : Carol P. Christ (2015). “Diving Deep & Surfacing: Women Writers on Spiritual Quest”, p.33, Beacon Press
“I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.”
“Too many rules with stifle innovation.”
“An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).”
“God brought me to Himself at about the age of 4. My parents were devout believers and my Dad was in Bible College at the time. I remember hearing the gospel in Sunday School and I talked to my Mom about it one night before bed. It was clear to me that I was a sinner and I was not going to heaven if I died without accepting Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for me. I was brought to Christ out of fear of going to hell. I didn't want to go there if I died and there was only one other choice in my mind as a 4 year old. I wanted to go to heaven. It was and is that simple.”
“There are choices you have to make not just once”

Source : Luis J. Rodriguez (2005). “Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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