Mary

“Before, you used to hear the word immigration and it sounded like everything you ever believed in. It sounded like feliz cumpleaños and merry Christmas and welcome home. But now you hear it and you get scared because it sounds like a word that makes you want to disappear. It sounds like someone getting stolen away from you.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Harbor Me

“The seller of lightning rods arrived just ahead of the storm.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“The metal thing was hammered and shaped half-crescent, half-cross.Around the rim of the
main rod little curlicues and doohingies had been soldered on, later. The entire surface of the rod was finely scratched and etched with strange languages, names that could tie the tongue or break the jaw, numerals that added to incomprehensible sums, pictographs of insect animals all bristle, chaff, and claw" (Bradbury 6). In this quote, Bradbury is giving us and showing what the character is describing, In this case, it is an Egyptian Scarab. How the quote was described was to attract the eyes of Jim, or even the readers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“But food gulped down is no food at all; it’s wasted; it gives you no feeling of fullness.”
― Alexander Solschenizyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich