“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”
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“What a shame that both miracles and radio waves are invisible, because ti would be quite a sight: ribbons of marvel and sound stretching out straight and true from all over the world.”
― All the Crooked Saints
― All the Crooked Saints
“This is how you treat your mother?" she cried. And if I could of I would have broken the entire length of my life across her face, but instead I screamed back, "And this is how you treat your daughter?”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“I am carving myself into a shape
that no one will recognize
because it is better being the marble
than the monster.”
― Wrong Side of a Fistfight
that no one will recognize
because it is better being the marble
than the monster.”
― Wrong Side of a Fistfight
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