"Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, "I knew girls who saved his gum.""

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Amy Hempel

#Girl Quotes #Book Quotes #Boys Quotes

“I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.”
“You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.”
“A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in oneâ€™s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in â€“ into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.”
“I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.”

Source : "Interview with Kirby Larson, Author of Hattie Big Sky". Interview with Cindy Hudson, motherdaughterbookclub.com. February 23, 2010.
“The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.”
“Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels.”
“It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.”
“If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels.”

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