"I drank that sentence and began to glow."

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Source : Gary Soto (2012). “Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gary Soto

#Drank Quotes #Sentences Quotes

“Writing. Love is writing.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle (1981). “Hermione”, p.129, New Directions Publishing
“I'm German but I didn't say that. I have no moustache”

Source : "World domination? 'I'm German but I didn't say that, I have no moustache,' jokes F1 champ Vettel" by Bob Burnett, www.mirror.co.uk. February 04, 2013.
“I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.”
“But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.”
“There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. â€œMy name is Augustus Waters,â€ he said. â€œIâ€™m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but Iâ€™m just here today at Isaacâ€™s request.â€ â€œAnd how are you feeling?â€ asked Patrick. â€œOh, Iâ€™m grand.â€ Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. â€œIâ€™m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”
“It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.”
“One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.”
“I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.”

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