Vladimir Sivin > Vladimir's Quotes

“Two steps to the left or right or back or front and you're standing outside your life.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn

“You gonna fucking kiss me, or what?”
― Nikki Sloane, Three Hard Lessons

“I'm an open book,' I say, thinking of all the men who have found it illegible. I made mistakes with these men. I dove for their legs as they tried to leave my house. I chased them down the hall with a bottle of Listerine, saying, I can be a beach read, I can get rid of all these clauses, please, I'll just revise.

I'M LOL'ING”
― Raven Leilani

“In the same way water trickles into even the tiniest cracks between boulders, her personality had formed into crooked shapes around the hard structure of her Chinese upbringing.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“Samir leveled a gaze at her. 'Sometimes, being in control is the only thing you have going for you.”
― Sandhya Menon, 10 Things I Hate About Pinky

“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him! And I’ll reply, Psalms 34:8.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“It is not easy to look at me, I know this very well.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“Don't...' His eyes fall closed. 'Be sad.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance

“In my youth I washed daily with Ivory soap and Prell shampoo. Everyone knew Prell was the best shampoo because you could also use it to clean a frying pan.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“When the shows begin in Milan for the season, every woman and girl in modeling heads there, along with every woman and girl who’s ever dreamed of becoming a model. Suddenly the city is mobbed by extremely tall mutant women, running everywhere like ants.”
― Waris Dirie, Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad

“Thai Pasta”
― Mayim Bialik, Mayim's Vegan Table: More than 100 Great-Tasting and Healthy Recipes from My Family to Yours

“We broke up in eighth grade when Tara-Mae Forrester offered to let me touch her boobs. And I did.”
― Emma Chase, Overruled

“All I can say is, three more years then I am out of here. I don't know where I'll end up, but I do know this: College is my ticket to somewhere else.”
― Cheryl Renee Herbsman, Breathing

“There’s a line in The Tempest about the past being prologue to everything that comes after,”
― Ashley Woodfolk, When You Were Everything

“The thing is- those books made my days bearable.”
― Aisha Saeed, Amal Unbound

“On the sixth day, the Empress formally replied that Ryohai could go fuck himself.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“It would make sense to her much later, that you needed some distance from a city to be able to worship it the way he did. It had also been his way of belonging: learning its mythology was one of many paths to calling a city home.”
― Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth

“If the police didn’t help ordinary people like you and me, if the police watched them die, doesn’t that mean, I wrote on Facebook, that the government is also a terrorist?”
― Megha Majumdar, A Burning

“guess when someone sees a person who’s truly embraced her freedom, one can only be stunned into a fleeting, temporary realization of one’s own invisible chains.”
― Rheea Mukherjee, The Body Myth

“I told her that staying doesn’t have the appeal, the mystery, of escape. To stay is to be staid, to be resigned, to believe this is all there will ever be. Aren’t we creatures made for searching, investigation, dominion? Aren’t we built to believe there can always be something better?”
― Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar

“The secret of staying young forever is to drown yourself in work that recharges you”
― Preeti Shenoy, A Hundred Little Flames

“An inch long scar on my left wrist, reminded me of an enchanted world of love, which had vanished like a mirage.”
― Preethi Venugopala, Without You

“We write to taste life twice" Anais Nin”
― Angella Ricot

“– დღის კოშმარი გესიზმრებოდა, – უთხრა რაჰელმა.
– კოშმარი კი არა, სიზმარი იყო, – მიუგო ამუმ.
– ესტას ეგონა, რომ კვდებოდი.
– ისეთი სევდიანი იყავი, რომ...… – თავი იმართლა ესტამ.
– ძალიან ბედნიერი ვიყავი, – თქვა ამუმ და მიხვდა, რომ მართლაც ასე იყო.
– ამუ, როდესაც ადამიანს ბედნიერება ესიზმრება, ეგ ითვლება? – ჰკითხა ესტამ.
– რა ითვლება?
– აი, ეგ სიზმრად ნანახი ბედნიერება.
ამუ მშვენივრად მიხვდა, რას გულისხმობდა მისი ქოჩორწამხდარი ვაჟი.
იმიტომ, რომ სინამდვილეში მხოლოდ ის ითვლება, რაც ჩასათვლელია.
მარტივი, სრულიად მყარი ბავშვური სიბრძნე.
ძილში თუ თევზი ჭამე, ითვლება? იმას ნიშნავს, რომ თევზი მართლაც შეჭამე?
სიზმრის ხალისიანი კაცი, რომელმაც ნაკვალევი არ დატოვა, ითვლებოდა, თუ არ ითვლებოდა?”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Bhutto’s case was not a trial of murder, rather it was the overt murder of a trial -”
― Fatima Bhutto, Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir

“Home is not to be mistaken with a house~ Home, Select Poetry Collection”
― Kanika Sharma, Select Poetry Collection

“There are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth.”
― Madeline Miller

“hiccoughed”
― Aly Martinez, On The Ropes Series

“every pussy looks good when it’s kissed and caressed by buttery-soft silk.”
― S.L. Jennings, Taint

“Dear Journal, I just realized that the key to advertising can be summed up in one word: Bullshit.”
― Whitney G., Mid-Life Love