"But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late."

-- Ransom Riggs

#Monday Quotes #Book Quotes #Years Quotes

“Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.”
“Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.”
“Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.”
“My mind soarsand whirlsin a danceof wild fearand graceful hope.”

Source : Margarita Engle (2010). “The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba”, p.135, Macmillan
“I felt myself no longer a husk but a body with some of the body's sweet juices stirring again. I had my first dream in many months, confused but to this day imperishable, with a flute in it somewhere, and a wild goose, and a dancing girl.”
“I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.”
“My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.”

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