Donna Jo Napoli Quotes

Creoles tend to express variations in time by having a string of helping verbs rather than by having complicated word formation rules. In other words, they are more like English in this respect than like a language such as Italian:
English: I thought she might have been sleeping.
Italian: Pensavo che dormisse.
The idea of potential (in the English "might"), completed or whole action (in the English "have"), and stretched-out activity (in the English "been") that go with "sleeping" are all expressed in the ending on the Italian verb dormisse. (Dorm is the root for "sleep"; isse is the ending that carries all the meaning about the time frame.)

I believe we have breaks because we need them. So my suggestion is that you take the break. Eat chocolate.

Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.

A young man who had watched her eating with her fingers offered a set of chopsticks- those sticks for eating that had become so popular. He looked at her suggestively. Instead of blushing, she accepted the chopsticks boldly and continued to walk on, using them to eat noodle and vegetable dishes.

And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.

Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about.

The world would be a better place if everyone traveled.
~Miss Clarrie

The British story of Peter Pan is about a boy who never grows up and plays all day.

A massive and brilliant accomplishment
the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

Words spoken in pain could be far crueler than the speaker really intended.
-Bound

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.

And the world kept moving, not toward any goal, just going, because that's what life does. And its bound to be better with a companion who knows how to be tender, a companion you may grow to cherish.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding