"Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove."

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Source : Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.4, Faber & Faber

Teju Cole

#Sky Quotes #Sight Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.”
“I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.”
“I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.”

Source : "Brendan Behan Dies in Dublin", www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1964.
“People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.”
“The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America.”
“The world is undoubtedly going through great changes.Â The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity or profits for the Jew.Â The task of the national state will, therefore, be to preserve the race and fit it to meet the final and great decisions on this globe by suitable education of its youth.”
“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet”
“My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust me-it's the most normal thing about my life right now. Even telling you this much probably isn't smart. But without my big mouth, no one would know that a seventeen-year-old who likes Death Cab for Cutie was responsible for the murders. No one would know that somewhere out there is a B student with a body count. And it's important that you know, so you're not next.”

Source : Michelle Hodkin (2012). “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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