Author Quotes

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

Charlotte Lennox

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

There are public lives, personal lives, and private lives. The public life is the one everyone sees in your daily routine, the personal one you reveal to your family and closest friends, but your private life, that's just what you know about yourself, what you hide from everyone else.

Lisa Jackson (author)

Giving up her home had been a much greater wrench than she had expected.... She had a curious sense of her own roots twined around the house, as she had once seen a tree's roots around an old shrine. In time the roots had grown into every crevice until shrine and tree were one indestructible entity.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

The combination of song, prayer, and poetry is a natural form of expression for many Navajo people. A person who is able to 'talk beautifully' is well thought of and considered wealthy...

There are deep lines on each side of his mouth and I know they are the scars from the thin blade of life.

Deborah Joy Corey

Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.

Margaret Kennedy

Don't think too small about what God could do in your life-be prepared for God to do a big thing.

Stormie Omartian

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

Indian time conveys an old grasp of time and life, perceived and experienced collectively by Indian people.... From the edge of Indian time overlooking infinity, there is acute perception and perspective.

Anna Lee Walters

For a machine to run smoothly and predictably,
its parts must be standard and hence replaceable,
features which contribute, respectively,
to modern depersonalization and anxiety.

Charles Eisenstein

A gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.

You can't control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway.

Don't forget that even our most obscene vices nearly always bear the seal of sullen greatness.

Gesualdo Bufalino

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

What linked them was not only the closeness they'd felt as children, but also the fear of losing that closeness.

France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every citizen. No Frenchman need ever fear that catastrophic illness will wipe him out financially. How long, do you suppose, will it take us, in the United States, to catch up?

Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.

This piercing cold I feel:
my dead wife's comb, in our bedroom
under my heel...

They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what concerns them everything has to be remade starting from basic principles. They say that in the first place the vocabulary of every language is to be examined, modified, turned upside down, that every word must be screened.

While I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

Gillian Rubinstein

Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?