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Mariko Tamaki

(1975) Novelist

18 quotes in 51 categories

Mariko Tamaki is a novelist.

Quick Facts About Mariko Tamaki

Born: December 22, 1975
Profession: Novelist

About Mariko Tamaki

[Wikidata] Canadian writer and artist... | [Wikipedia] Mariko Tamaki is a Canadian artist and writer. She is known for her graphic novels Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, Skim, Emiko Superstar, and This One Summer. In 2016, she began writing for both Marvel and DC Comics. She has twice been named a runner-up for the Michael L. Printz Award.

Quotes by Mariko Tamaki

“This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the…

Dance

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“The world is full of unexpected things. Even for people like us.”

Unexpected things

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“I'm not a big fan of memorials." "Oh yeah?" "A memorial implies that the only victims are the ones in the ground.…

Big fan

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“Change. Now everything's not okay. You're not okay. I'm not okay. No one is okay.”

Change

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“You right, okay? The world is a crappy place to be a lot of the time. But this, whatever this is-- you…

Time

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“Change. It's hard to nail down exactly when you know that things are screwed up for the permanent.”

Change

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“Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you?”

Book

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“Some people are good at war. I preferred science.”

Science

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When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's…

Life

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“For the longest time I was only afraid of two things... The possibility that something bad would happen to someone I love.…

Fear

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There's a certain amount of pressure that goes with writing superhero characters, especially characters that are beloved to audiences. You know that…

Accepting

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“Maisie was right. I am a monster. A different kind of monster now. A monster still breathing in a world... horrible... and…

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“I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still.”

Beautiful writing

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“That's not true. There's so much more... Hope is everywhere." "Even you don't believe that.”

Hope

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I wake up every day super excited to be a woman! It's amazing. I wouldn't have it any other way. There's an…

Diversity

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I love spoilers, and I read spoilers all the time. I make people tell me the endings of movies before I go…

Giving

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“I know there are some people who see sound as colour, and I've always wondered if mean looks different than not mean.…

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“I though Ray was a good person. He seemed like a good person. He wasn't. He sent men to hurt me. He…

Good person

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