Quotes of: Freshman-year Keyword

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

I’ve come a long way in the last year. 365 days, to be exact.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed, The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.

Twelve Years a Slave

I’m up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I’m tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria.

This Book Has No Title

Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to suffer the rest of your 40 years doing the same.

Tomorrow Today

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin

To give a tangerine is a Chinese New Year's Tradition. Stems are left on to keep friendship intact.

Very California: Travels Through the Golden State

Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?

The Year of Secret Assignments

Yeah, but most of the time I think being an adult is not all it's cracked up to be. I've always wanted to postpone growing up for as long as possible.

The Year After

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

The Year of the Flood

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

The Year of the Flood

Dawn appears when it appears.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

The Year of Pleasures

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

The Years of Rice and Salt

...some events in life would remain beyond my ability to control or manage them. Some events would just happen.

The Year of Magical Thinking

I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.

The Year of Magical Thinking

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them

The Year of Magical Thinking

Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home—these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.

A Year of Biblical Womanhood

If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.

A Year of Biblical Womanhood