"Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen."

-- Janette Rallison

#Girl Quotes #Teenage Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.”
“The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.”
“I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.”
“Metaphor is embodied in language.”
“Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.”
“Give all the credit in the world to Angelique Kerber - great, great talent. She's been in the top 10 for the last four years, and she's one of those players that just really had a difficult time, when the chips were on the table, to kind of bring them over. And this time, she did it. I'm really happy for her because these chances don't come for these other players. Serena Williams has got 21 grand slam champions. Angelique Kerber was in her first final.”

Source : "Angelique Kerber Defeats Serena Williams To Win Australian". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 30, 2016.
“... I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method...”
“If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.”

Source : David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

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