"What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#People Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.”
“A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.”

Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.151, Penguin
“I think purple is the only color that suits me most.”
“If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.”
“One of the things about landays is that they thrive in a modern context. Early on I went to this incredible Pashtun novelist, Mustafa Salik, who is a bestselling novelist in Afghanistan and works for the BBC in Pashto. With the question of the sanctity of the poems in mind, I asked him, "Aren't you worried? They've been posted on Facebook and such." And he said, "Just the opposite. This is a folk form; they survive and thrive as people share them."”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don't disappoint him.”
“Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowinâ€™ me lawn and killinâ€™ what Brits come around.”

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