“Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from "I can't do this" to "I must do this.”
“To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins)”
Source: The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction
“His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.”
Source: This Crooked Way
“It never registered to them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation. It would have been exactly the same to them if I had read through all twenty-six volumes of Elsie Dinsmore. (The White Azalea)”
Source: The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction
“Моя была бы воля, я бы только детей и признавал за людей. Как человек перешагнул за детский возраст, так ему камень на шею да в воду. Потому взрослый человек почти сплошь - мерзавец...”
Source: Собрание сочинений в шести томах: Том 5 - Чудеса в решете
“He glanced about him to make sure we weren't overheard, leaned forward, and whispered, 'He collects stamps.'
The family looked bewildered.
'You mean he's a philatelist?' said Larry at length.
'No, no, Master Larrys,' said Spiro. 'He's not one of them. He's a married man and he's gots two childrens.”
Source: My Family and Other Animals
“Eigentlich ist jede Familie eine Sekte für sich, mit irgendeiner speziellen Idee oder Wahnvorstellung, um die alles kreist, oft naheliegende Dinge wie Status, Macht, Tradition, Prominenz, Vermögen, Schönheit, Talente der Kinder.”
Source: Aus dem Haus
“With all due respect, Captain ... I can't find the silverware drawer.”
Source: The New Diary
“Okulda insanın asıl öğrenmesi istenen, anlatılan dersler değil ders anlatılırken susması gerektiğidir”
Source: Oğullar ve Rencide Ruhlar
“Şüphe rüyaları başarısızlıktan daha çok öldürür.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem