Quote by Claire Messud Download Open image ““Have you ever asked yourself whether you’d rather fly or be invisible?”” — Claire Messud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Maybe it feels easier that way, just being invisible instead of always worrying what people think of you.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“I'd want to fly. I know it's not very useful, but ... it's flying.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing all at the same time. I… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“We don't usually wish we were invisible unless, for some extreme reason, we were noticed first.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
So today at school.. We had a special visitor. He asked the audience, If you could choose between either having the super power to… — Sheryne Brooks Copy Share Image
I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Life is about deciding what matters. It’s about the fantasy that determines the reality. Have you ever asked yourself whether you’d rather fly or… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“I don't want to sleep,' my mother said. 'I want -- for God's sake, I want to wake up.” — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“It was supposed to say “Great Artist” on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say “such a good teacher/daughter/friend” instead;… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Live, my dear Nora. Satisfy your hunger. There's food all around you, you know.' 'What kind of food, I'd like to know?' 'Ah'-he smiled-… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“It makes sense that if you stand almost daily in the middle of a perfect crescent of shore, with a vista open to eternity,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
