"The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past."

-- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#Past Quotes #Skins Quotes #Generations Quotes

“To enter the maintsteam market is an act of aggression. The companies who have already established relationships with your target customer will resent your intrusion and do everything they can to shut you out.”
“When satan wants you to cry and you laugh, you defeat him”
“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
“If you have a dream. Believe it. Work on it. Have faith in your heart and feel it explode within you. Be sincere about your dream. Mean what you say and do what you dream.”
“No matter how successful you are, change is always good.”
“It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”

Source : Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.4, Macmillan
“Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.”
“When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that what I had said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deviated from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.”

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