“There was a mistake made on the day I was born, when I come to think of it.”— William Boyd, amazon.com
“Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.”— Alex Haley, amazon.com
“And it’s a story that might bore you but you don’t have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks, her first year, or, actually weekend, really a Friday, in September, at Camden, and this was three or four years ago, and she got so drunk tha…”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com
“When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.”— Frances Hodgson Burnett, amazon.com
“Recall the kind of feeling you have when someone praises you, when you are approved, accepted, applauded.”— Anthony De Mello, amazon.com
“A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Lee Chong’s grocery, while not a model of neatness, was a miracle of supply.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Pimpin' ain't easy, but it's necessary, especially if you wanna fully utilize the power of your kitchen.”— Coolio, amazon.com
“In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from their roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“I particularly detest books that begin something like 'Ah, there was joy and happiness in the quaint Tasmanian home of Professor Flynn when the first bellowings of lusty little Errol were heard. . . .'”— Errol Flynn, amazon.com
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com