"Resoundingâ€¦with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable."

-- Kathi Appelt

#Compassion Quotes #Skinny Quotes #Speak Quotes

“If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.”
“I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.”

Source : Mario Puzo (2012). “Fools Die”, p.444, Random House
“People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldnt matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. Thats how I started tapping my toes.”
“Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says, 'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.'”
“When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.”
“Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.”
“I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to”
“It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.”

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