"I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified…" — Teju Cole

"I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones."

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38 Quotes by Teju Cole

Teju Cole has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of…
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both…
I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant…
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air…
But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to…
It is dangerous to live in a secure world.
I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for…
The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.
It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see…
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs,…

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More Adore Quotes

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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. — Sarah Bernhardt
What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. — Tony Blair
I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore. — Danny Boyle
I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won… — Amy Chua
I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career. — Julie Andrews
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise… — Basilea Schlink
I just adore jumping. I do the rest as it is supposed to be done. — Evgeni Plushenko
Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of… — Richard O'Brien
We women adore failures. They lean on us. — Oscar Wilde
One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into… — Michael Josephson

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