Henrik-drescher Quote by Henrik Drescher

“My grandparents... planted their land up with trees, both those native... and exotics which stood in memory of the countries where they had lived.”

— Robert Macfarlane

“She was white, wore perfume and smiled openly with the Negro customers, so I knew she was sophisticated. Other people's sophistication tended to make…

— Maya Angelou

“She didn’t look like Louise. She didn’t look much like anybody except herself.”

— Jean Thompson

“Instead of relishing life, people merely existed. Such was the case with my family.”

— Kien Nguyen

“People like where their roots are, especially when they are away from them.”

— Augusto Branco

“They were the faces of the culture in which I grew up. That culture was dead.”

— Bobby Adair

“They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.”

— Ann Patchett

“Amelia and I were at the age where wonderful things sometimes still did happen, but far less often than they used to.”

— Tiffany Baker

“They were with their mother, and so they were acting like children.”

— Emma Straub

“The things of your life arrived in their own time, like a train you had to catch.”

— Justin Cronin

“Cousins are like celebrities for little kids.”

— Jim Gaffigan

“What happens when the They family meets the Whatevers?”

— Wyatt B. Pringle, Jr