Alison McGhee Quotes

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• Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now
• You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to…
• You are most powerful when you are most silent....
• All it takes is a single moment.
• Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from…
• Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one…
• Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?
• What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?
• The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India…
• I'll live in another world, then.
• It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at…
• I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays…
• Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.
• I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

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