Katie Durow > Katie's Quotes

“I remember we crossed a bridge and it trembled underneath our feet because we were so many people.”
― Wendy Pearlman, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

“There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.”
― Aristophanes, Lysistrata

“Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men.”
― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I am beginning to realize that we are all raised by children. Children that are shaped by their own traumas, some of them unable to forget or overcome what happened to them before they passed it along (pg. 191)”
― Anna Qu, Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship the tape somewhere. Well, none of the musicians have played together. You can’t play jazz music that way. In order for you to play jazz, you’ve got to listen to them. The music forces you at all times to address what other people are thinking and for you to interact with them with empathy and to deal with the process of working things out. And that’s how our music really could teach what the meaning of American democracy is.”
― Wynton Marsalis

“And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.”
― Wynton Marsalis, To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road

“Jazz is democracy in music.”
― Wynton Marsalis

“And the thing about jazz, through all the business involved in practicing and improvement, it's always sweet: the improvement that you notice in the ability to express yourself, the feeling of playing, pushing yourself out into an open space through a sound, man. That's an unbelievable feeling, an uplifting feeling of joy to be able to express the range of what you feel and see, have felt and have seen. A lot of this has nothing to do with you. It comes from another time, another space. To be able to channel those things and then project them though an instrument, that's something that brings unbelievable joy.”
― Wynton Marsalis, To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road

“Rap Is More Damaging Than Confederate Statues”
― Wynton Marsalis

“May you live long enough to know why you were born.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me

“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“And what is love, in the end?" Alabaster said. "Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“What I did not know was that I had hit upon a truth of womanhood: However blameless the life we lead, the passions and the greed of men could bring us to ruin, and there was nothing we could do.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Please, sir, I want some more.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, hindi makakarating sa paroroonan. One who does not look back at their origin will never arrive at their destination.”
― Meredith Talusan, Fairest: A Memoir

“Educated, idealistic men began our revolution, but every time I looked into this boy soldier’s face and he spoke his chipped Arabic, with his cigarettes yellowing his teeth, I knew the uneducated would have the final say in my country’s future.”
― Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It's funny the decisions you make because you like someone, he says, and then your whole life is different. I think we're at that weird age where life can change a lot from small decisions.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People