“If you believe you can read you can”
― Lisa McMann, quote from The Unwanteds
“I'd rather die fighting to keep us free to do as we wish, fighting to be free to come and go as we please, fighting so we no longer need to hide. Fighting the fear that all of you were programmed since birth to have. Fighting against Quill's bigotry, which says brains and brawn are better, or more important, than creativity.
Marcus Today”
― Lisa McMann, quote from The Unwanteds
“Alex dropped his eyes and took in a few breaths, vowing silently not to look at Samheed again until … well, ever.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from The Unwanteds
“Alex leaned over to Samheed. “If we get an hour’s worth of music lessons, I think my head might explode.” “In that case, bring on the music,” Samheed muttered. Alex”
― Lisa McMann, quote from The Unwanteds
“I hate to do it.” “It won’t hurt them.” “That’s exactly why I hate to do it,” growled”
― Lisa McMann, quote from The Unwanteds
Lisa McMann
Born place: in Holland, Michigan, The United States
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“Oy, hayır, hakkında konuştuğum yazar, kendisini olgun saydığı için değil, fakat tam da kendi olgunlaşmamışlığını tanıdığı için, bir biçimi olmadığını ve tırmanmakta olan, ama daha tırmanıp çıkmamış biri olduğunu, yapılmakta olan, ama henüz yapılıp bitmemiş biri olduğunu bildiği için kendisini yazmaya verecektir. Eğer nasibine başarısız ve budalaca bir eser yazmak düşerse, diyecektir ki: “Harika! Aptalca yazdım, ama kimseyle sadece akıllıca, mükemmel eserler verme anlaşması yapmamıştım. Kendi budalalığıma ifade kazandırdım ve bundan ötürü de seviniyorum, değil mi kendime karşı uyandırdığım isteksizlik ve insani katılık beni şekillendiriyor ve işliyor, sanki yeni baştan yaratıyor ve işte ben bir kez daha yeni doğmuş oluyorum.” Bundan da görülüyor ki sağlıklı bir felsefesi olan ozan, kendi içinde öyle bir pekişmiştir ki onu aptallık ve olgunlaşmamışlık bile ne ürkütebilir ne de bir zarar verebilir – sizler, korku sesinizi sizden aldığı için, handiyse hiçbir şey ifade edemeyecek bir durumdayken, o, açık alınla kendisini ifade edebilir ve kendi ataleti içinde görünür olabilir.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, quote from Ferdydurke
“Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a tonic. Life acquired significance. She was about to step from the world of make-believe into the world of reality.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, quote from Theatre
“Trouble's not only my middle name, it's my first and last, too.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Consort
“I would have graduated higher, but I flunked gravy.”
― Janet Evanovich, quote from Wicked Appetite
“A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M.E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling at the edge of the lot. I’d stayed close to the back door, and one of the Rangeman guys had taken a position two feet from me, standing at parade rest. No doubt in my mind he’d take a bullet for me rather than face Ranger over a dead Stephanie.”
― Janet Evanovich, quote from Smokin' Seventeen
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