"Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special."

-- Veronica Roth

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #People Quotes

“People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.”
“Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.”
“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”
“Although I love all the great foods of the world, my death row meal would have to be cooked for me by my mother and grandmother (they live together and this happens on most Sundays). More than satisfy our hunger, these dinners nurture the soul.”
“These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kim-berly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation.”
“A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.”
“All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.”

Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.136, Open Road Media
“All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.”

Source : FaceBook post by Donald Miller from Oct 16, 2012

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