"Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best."

-- Meg Cabot

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you. But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew.”

Source : "The Singing Crow And Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("The Colors"), 1926.
“Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.”
“In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.”
“Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.”
“People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.”
“It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.”
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”

Source : "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children". Book by Ransom Riggs, 2011.
“I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.”

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