Masashi Kishimoto · 187 pages
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“A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto, quote from Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja
“I call this one the Ninja Center-fold! ~ Naruto”
― Masashi Kishimoto, quote from Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja
“Hidan: Hey, look at that, it's my headband! You went to the trouble of picking it up and keeping for me? I'm touched. You're a pretty nice guy, Kakuzu, you knwo that?
Kakuzu: Shut up. Let's go.
Hidan: Let me put it on at least! Okay, I'm coming. Admit it, you like me a little, doncha?
Kakuzu: Either you shut up, or I'll kill you.
Hidan: Haha, you're embarrassed! I understand.”
― Masashi Kishimoto, quote from Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja
“So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go ?”
― Masashi Kishimoto, quote from Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja
“I was raised on ramen and hard work!”
― Masashi Kishimoto, quote from Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja
“It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Blackberry Wine
“felt that if I ran away with the others I would leave with her something of mine that she would never give back.”
― quote from My Brilliant Friend
“...the truth is, we never know for sure about ourselves. Who we'll sleep with if given the opportunity, who we'll betray in the right circumstance, whose faith and love we will reward with our own. Only after we've done a thing do we know what we'll do...Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves.”
― Richard Russo, quote from Straight Man
“...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, quote from Heaven
“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.
But this was different.
I read [in, Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot]: This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
I started to cry.
(…)The unfamiliar and beautiful play made things bearable that day, and the things it made bearable were another failed family—the first one was not my fault, but all adopted children blame themselves. The second failure was definitely my fault.
I was confused about sex and sexuality, and upset about the straightforward practical problems of where to live, what to eat, and how to do my A levels.
I had no one to help me, but the T.S. Eliot helped me.
So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.
It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
― Jeanette Winterson, quote from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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