Saira Viola · 128 pages
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“Mishaque was a stouty blend of Irish "shrek" mixed with crazy Jafakain, his front was car dealing.”
― Saira Viola, quote from Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
“A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.”
― Saira Viola, quote from Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
“T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a "pink moon”
― Saira Viola, quote from Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
“He was a boom boom shake the room " kind of guy”
― Saira Viola, quote from Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
“With him big Phil from Notting Hill an old "face" from the sixties a pin up gangster with a "mars bar" weal scraping his left cheek and of course two "wag" slags in tow trussed up like French Poodles with "Bratz babe" stares and Gucci Handbags”
― Saira Viola, quote from Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
“I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.”
― Mark Oliver Everett, quote from Things The Grandchildren Should Know
“Between the probable and proved there yawns
A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd,
Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse,
Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns
Our only hope: to leap into the Word
That opens up the shuttered universe.”
― Sheldon Vanauken, quote from A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
“The fate of millions of people—indeed the future of the black community itself—may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.”
― Michelle Alexander, quote from The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from The Moon Is Down
“Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.”
― Randy Alcorn, quote from Courageous
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