Markita Flowe > Markita's Quotes

“Heidi's role as grand master was to monitor all the women and to manage their locations and communication. Even though she’d done this many times on multiple missions, her heartbeat still pounded in her ears.”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

“After Bajju delivered a few beaming salutations, we walked northward up the makeshift, winding path through protruding brush, not much but a few stones placed here and there for balance and leverage upon ascending or descending. Having advanced about hundred steps from the street below, a sharp left leads to Bajju’s property, which begins with his family’s miniature garden – at the time any signs of fertility were mangled by dried roots which flailed like wheat straw, but within the day Bajju’s children vehemently delivered blows with miniature hoes in preparation for transforming such a plot into a no-longer-neglected vegetable garden. A few steps through the produce, or preferably circumventing all of it by taking a few extra steps around the perimeter, leads to the sky-blue painted home. Twisting left, hundreds of miles of rolling hills and the occasional home peeps out, bound below by demarcated farming steppes. If you’re lucky on a clear day and twist to the right, the monstrous, perpetually snow-capped Chaukhamba mountain monopolizes the distance just fifteen miles toward the direction of Tibet in the north.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

“When you understand why you were born, you can handle whatever comes your way. You stop running from your past, from your pain, and from your mistakes.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

“It is the role of objects to restore silence”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable

“Toumani,”
― Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family

“Machinery which is not used is not capital.”
― Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value

“and he sees me seeing him see me. Anyway,”
― Andrew Clements, Things Not Seen

“I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire, who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

“Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.”
― Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

“Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!”
― Clement C. Moore, Twas the Night before Christmas A Visit from St. Nicholas

“...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“To understand everything is to forgive.”
― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

“Don’t let anyone tell you things aren’t better than they used to be. —”
― Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl

“But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur