"If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement."

“Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.”

“I like creating beauty out of scary things.”

Source : "Claire Boucher Mines Beauty From the Dark Side" by Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. March 7, 2012.

“I have no history but the length of my bones.”

Source : Robin Skelton (1971). “The hunting dark”, McClelland and Stewart

“In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.”

“I didn't think it was possible at my age honestly. They call it a geriatric pregnancy”

“We are a landscape of all we have seen.”

“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin

“I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.”