"When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them."

“One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.”

“"But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know how they've managed to make this law in their favor, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well?”

Source : "The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men".

“Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster of a sailing ship! He must stand at the very stern, with an unobstructed view of the sails. When sailing "by the wind" his eye is glued to the weather-side of the uppermost sail; he keeps it drawing a trace of wind, but never lets it fill.”

“When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything that was too subversive was basically banned. All the music that we got from outside of South Africa was the poppiest, least subversive music that you could get.”

“Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.”

Source : FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Oct 31, 2013

“If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips”

“I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.”

Source : Tosca Lee (2015). “Havah: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

“[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.”