“If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.”
― Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
― Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
“...take me where I may forget myself, my existence, and all the world.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“While life on earth offers many choices, eternity offers only two: heaven or hell. Your relationship to God on earth will determine your relationship to him in eternity.”
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“Tell the truth, all Sicilians prefer smelling the shit of their villages to the best perfumes in Paris. What am I doing here? I could have escaped to Brazil like some others. Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.”
― The Sicilian
― The Sicilian
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