"I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood."

-- Lauren DeStefano

#Wall Quotes #Swim Quotes #Body Quotes

“By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.”

Source : "The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye" by Rabih Alameddine, therumpus.net. October 27, 2009.
“Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.”
“President [Barack] Obama, it took him a number of days to do [appointments to Administration] and it took former President Bill Clinton even longer.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.”
“I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.”
“People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.”
“Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.”
“I almost feel like I'm unoffendable now. I can roll with whatever.”

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