"As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you."

-- Ann Brashares

#Book Quotes #Isolation Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.”
“If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.”
“It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.”

Source : Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”
“No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.”
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”

Source : "Stepping Stone : The Complete Bible Narratives". Book by John Thomas Clark, 1941.
“The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.”
“How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.”
“Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted followers should begin to see that also depicting it as vulnerable to non-existent threats undermines the myth itself.”

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