Quotes of: Helen-keller Keyword

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.

Skinny Legs and All

Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers." She slapped my back. "Welcome to high school.

Shelter

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

Nothing Was the Same

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

Letters to Sir William Temple

People say the sun is too bright. I say the sun is too silent. And that’s saying something, considering I’m a Helen Keller fan.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Time Regained

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

Torch

Love sounds like an elephant weighs. I know, because I’ve seen it with my own two nostrils. I’ve grown fat on the scent of Helen Keller’s memory.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The world is my canvas, and my ponytail is my paintbrush. Helen Keller probably had a ponytail too, though my art has more vision. Barely.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

When I describe love to an emotional Helen Keller, I usually say it has four legs, fur, and possesses the ability to either purr or meow.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

It was 7 AM, so what else could I say but, “Have a great night.” Plus, he was as blind as Helen Keller was deaf, so to him day was night.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Love has a sound, if you know what to listen for. It sounds like silence, surrounded by blindness. It’s the Helen Keller of emotions, at least for me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Be fearless enough to let love transform you.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Who wants to be the unsung heroes of my voiceless choir quartet? We’re the Helen Kellers, and I’m holding auditions with oven mitts, because they’re sure to be hot.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In my view, a Cyclops is halfway to being blind. Love sees all. When someone insults me and I go silent, I’m in Helen Keller mode. Listen!

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a form of injury to the brain and body, and even as a variant of castration.

Vagina: A New Biography

Women are not wrong if they react instinctively – often jealously – against their partner’s interest in porn, since pornography is actually, neurologically, a woman’s destructive rival for her man’s sexual capabilities.

Vagina: A New Biography

A beloved daughter who now spent holidays alone.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

The moment I saw her I fell in love. It was pitch black and I was wearing a blindfold at the time. Don’t just stand there like Helen Keller. Turn up the silence and say something.

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