"All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language."

-- John Green

#Powerful Quotes #Real Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.”
“The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.”

Source : "Dying of hunger in a land of surplus" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2002.
“The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.”
“Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.”
“Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.”
“In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.”
“It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.”
“I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.”

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