"A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you."

-- Adam Johnson

#Heart Quotes #Names Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.”
“What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.”
“But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.”
“As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.”

Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.94, A&C Black
“Although I am good at enumerating my fatherâ€™s flaws, itâ€™s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because heâ€™s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers.”

Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Get them while they're young and bend their minds.”
“My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.”
“I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.”

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