"I'm always happy when I see something written on an album that wasn't just typed on a computer."

“I haven't got a writer's discipline.”

“Shut up,' he explained.”

Source : The Young Immigrants ch. 10 (1920)

“Content marketing represents the gap between what brands produce and what consumers actually want.”

“Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.”

“Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.”

Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

“Hold your head up to the gun of a million cathode ray tubes aired at your tiny skull.”

“everyone knows, at some level, that the sharp line between "good weather" and "bad weather" is a fiction, that we need rain as surely as we need sun.”

“Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.”