"Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist."

“We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.”
“I don't like to eat in movies. I don't like props. Some people have always got to have a thing and they're doing this or doing that. I hate it. I just want to talk or fight. Or both!”
“Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.”

Source : Cristina Garcia (2009). “I Wanna Be Your Shoebox”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
“You can let hate, animosity and anger eat away at you, or you can let it go and begin again.”
“I'm prepared for 12 rounds. I'll be very happy with anything else, but I'm prepared for 12 or 15 rounds.”
“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”
“a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.”
“Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.”

Source : Donna Jo Napoli (1995). “The Magic Circle”, p.8, Penguin

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