"HÃ©ctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge."

-- Stuart Dybek

#Revenge Quotes #Book Quotes #Cities Quotes

“My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.”
“My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.”
“Christian Deodorant: "Thou Shalt Not Smell"”
“I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the lyrics come along and they say, 'Oh yeah, I've got something to fit that.' If that's the way people write songs, I feel like you might as well just go to the supermarket.”

Source : Source: www.thisisyesterday.com
“In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.”
“The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.”

Source : Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”
“Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.”
“Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.”

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