Danielle > Danielle's Quotes

“Among the tramps were some real bruisers, that was certain, but there were also men who had been badly bruised.”
― Ted Conover, Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes

“Chiapas, he says, is 'a cemetary with no crosses, where people die without even getting a prayer.”
― Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey

“I put my face to the window so nobody would see, if I tore up. Was this me now, for life? Taking up space where people wished I wasn’t? Once on a time I was something, and then I turned, like sour milk. The dead junkie’s kid. A rotten little piece of American pie that everybody wishes could just be, you know. Removed.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Because where are you even going to steal an apple off a tree? In this city if you're out of money you are screwed, no two ways about it.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“I think what you mean is a totally different phobia. Fear that the things you imagine will turn real.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

“I don't think blood's the only way kids come by things honest. Not even the main way. It's what you tell them, Taylor. If a person is bad, say, it makes them feel better to tell their kids that they're even worse. And that's just exactly what they'll grow up to be.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and say: 'I'll go take a hot bath...' I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The reason I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.
I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next bad suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.
It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash it again the next.
It made me tired just to think of it.
I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“It's awful. Every day I see buses full of kids arriving. They come from the poor areas, you can tell... first they convince them that the afterlife is even better than Disneyland, then they put them in a trance with all their songs... it's nuts! They hypnotize them and just toss them into battle. Absolute carnage. The key to paradise was for poor people. Thousands of young kids, promised a better life, exploded on the minefield with their keys around their necks.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood