“You yourself must be filled with wonders”
“I write for the soul that turned its silence into a roar, and its sorrow into a soft fire of remembering.”
“I know, too, that once a family has acquired a habit of secrecy, memories begin to distort, because its members confabulate to cover the gaps in the facts; you have to make some sort of sense of what's going on around you, so you cobble together a narrative as best you can. You add to it, and reason about it, and the distortions breed distortions.”
Source: Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir
“Behind the Iron Curtain, dinner told the truth.”
Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“History was censored. The kitchen remembered.”
Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“Wesley's touch lingers on my skin. His music echoes through my head. I remind myself as I scrub my skin that we are both liars and con artists. That we will always have secrets, some that bind us and some that cut between us, slicing us into pieces.”
Source: The Unbound
“Donald Trump's secrets are two. - He has mastered the art of persuasion. - He has absolutely no conscience.”
Source: What Donald Trump Supporters Need to Know: But Are Too Infatuated to Figure Out
“The Donald is not a master of the deal; he is a reckless, foolhardy craps dealer playing with house money. He doesn't care at all about the lives and fortunes of the human beings peopling this planet.”
Source: What Donald Trump Supporters Need to Know: But Are Too Infatuated to Figure Out
“There will always be con artists, I know that,” Warren admitted. “But that doesn’t mean clairvoyance isn’t real.”
“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a genuine achievement.”
Source: Ripley Under Ground