"How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time."

-- Josephine Humphreys

#Memories Quotes #Moving Quotes #Book Quotes

“The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.”
“Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”
“There is no love that is not an echo.”

Source : Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.217, Verso
“I'll get mobbed by literally 40 school girls. It's like being a full fledged star, and that's surreal.”
“Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes â€“ the brush doesnâ€™t touch the surface on the canvas, itâ€™s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.”
“That was the way it was that beautiful evening of cold November rain and muddy country roads and crazy windshield wipers. That was the moment of my greatest security and confidence; it was the time when I realized that love makes one a better person, a kinder gentler one.”

Source : Irene Hunt (2005). “Up a Road Slowly”, p.96, Penguin
“Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words, and these are they: "Even this shall pass away."”
“Now Daddy is part of God. I guess when you die you become much more bigger, because you're part of everything.”

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