Daily Quotes

Quotes of the day. Feel free to ask questions about literature or submit a quote that you'd like to see posted.

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My family came to this country to take advantage of opportunity, not to take advantage of America.

Jake Danishevsky, AfterTastes and Tales from Russia

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America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.

Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

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I want to lay down, but these countries are like uncles who touch you when you're young and asleep. Look at all these borders foaming at the mouth with bodies broken and desperate...I spent days and nights in the stomach of the truck; I did not come out the same. Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body.

Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

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I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying

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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language

And next year’s words await another voice.

T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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I hope everyone had a nice holiday season!

Even though 2017 was a year of anger and sadness, 2018 will be a year to fight. Don't fight with violence, fuel movements with words of respect and truth.

This is my goal with this blog, and I hope all of you will continue to fight in 2018.

Happy New Year!

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For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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As far as God goes, I am a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil--well, that's something else.

William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

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I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

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We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

Robert Bloch, Psycho

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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

Stephen King, The Shining

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

Bram Stoker, Dracula

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Get ready for quotes from your favorite horror novels leading up to Halloween!

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Your hair is winter fire

January embers

My heart burns there, too.

Stephen King, It

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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis