"Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of."

--

Source : "The Farming of Bones". Book by Edwidge Danticat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 1998.

Edwidge Danticat

#Black Quotes #Thumbprints Quotes #Misery Quotes

“Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?”
“When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.”
“For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs.”
“I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.”
“Not all who drink energy drinks are douches, but all douches drink energy drinks.”
“I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.”
“Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.”
“I've struggled seriously to make movies with very little money, that I write, that I direct, that mean my life to me. The idea that I would offer a part to anyone for any other reason than that he or she was gonna be the best of anyone I could find is so disgusting to me. I don't give my best friends parts unless they deserve them. Ever.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com

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