"In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me . . . and asked me in a whisper . . . "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can.""

-- Anna Akhmatova

#Years Quotes #Waiting Quotes #One Day Quotes

“Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.”
“My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.”
“To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.”
“I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.”

Source : FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Sep 12, 2012
“If you have a sane economy, and by sane economy I mean one which is not addicted to debt, not a Ponzi economy, then the change in debt each year should contribute a minor amount to demand. Therefore, if you tried to correlate debt to the level of unemployment you would not find much of a correlation. Unfortunately that is not the economy we live in.”
“Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.”
“They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash, Mad and stuff because they don't have cash.”
“This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

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