"When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there."

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Source : "BYT Interviews: Celeste Ng". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.

Celeste Ng

#Growing Up Quotes #Fire Quotes #Catching On Quotes

“The Apostle John said, " Beloved, now we are the sons of God." He didn't say by and by we are going to become sons of God. He said we are that now, today, this moment. " Now we are the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shallsee him as he is"”
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
“Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.”
“I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft. There will be some tweaks along the way, but it's not like I'll go 20 pages and throw it out and start again.”
“All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?”

Source : Harry Mulisch (2003). “Siegfried”, Viking Press
“There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.”
“Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.”
“Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

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