Daveta Saunders Quotes

Books are an extension of our imagination ~ Danny Saunders

Sometimes with all the teasing his days were subtenable. ~ George Saunders

Ted, I swear to God, quothe he. ~ George Saunders

lie in fields of flowers
and hear their petals hum ~ Kirli Saunders

If you want your Storys to end happy, try being niser. ~ George Saunders

Does your hip hurt much?" "Only when I laugh or fart, ~ Kate Saunders

Why be normal? What's the point? ~ Richard Saunders

I was back to feeling myself which, believe me, is no picnic. ~ George Saunders

How could something that started out with such good intentions end so badly? ~ Chris Saunders

Got used to being slightly sad! ~ George Saunders

And I woslike: O wow. ~ George Saunders

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others). ~ George Saunders

...smile first, then speak. ~ George Saunders

Though firm, we are never too firm, though we love fun, we never have fun in a silly way that makes us appear ridiculous, unless that is our intent. ~ George Saunders

Change your experience of life. ~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Even a Canadian baby with a harelip would be beyond our means. ~ George Saunders

In spite of the strife the stars were bright as crystal. ~ George Saunders

Dreading dusk, fearing night, praying for dawn. ~ Gregory J. Saunders

At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree. ~ George Saunders

It's a big world, and I really like it. ~ George Saunders

There are so many sad people nowadays that sadness looks normal. ~ Kate Saunders

Two passing temporarinesses developed feelings for one another. Two puffs of smoke became mutually fond. ~ George Saunders

How people die remains in the memory of those who live on ~ Cicely Saunders

Nostalgia pierced me. I started to cry. I wasn't sad, but remembered happiness hurts. ~ Kate Saunders

A fortunate birth, in other words, is a shock absorber. -The Thought Experiment ~ George Saunders

I'm comfortable with anything after the fact. ~ George Saunders

Kissing him last night at the pep rally had been like kissing an underpass. ~ George Saunders

Why were we made just so, to find so many things that happened every day pretty? ~ George Saunders

Graduate college, win Pam, get job, make babies, move ahead in job, forget former feeling of special destiny ... ~ George Saunders

... perfectionists often produce very little. ~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Err in the direction of kindness. ~ George Saunders

Our country is big, let us be big. ~ George Saunders

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality. ~ George Saunders

He seems to have a passable knowledge of how to pretend to churn butter. ~ George Saunders

Which maybe that's what love was: liking someone how he was and doing things to help him get even better. ~ George Saunders

Love, love, I know what you are. ~ George Saunders

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like. ~ George Saunders

I am trying to rekindle my feeling of fondness for the world. ~ George Saunders

My emotional state is determined by where my attention goes. ~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.' ~ George Saunders

I noticed something: if I put a theme park in a story, my prose improved. ~ George Saunders

What a degraded cosmos. What a case of something starting out nice and going bad. ~ George Saunders

On our wedding day I was forty-six, she was eighteen. ~ George Saunders

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within. ~ George Saunders

Absurdism was really just realism seen from close to the bottom. ~ George Saunders

I have often observed that the state of motherhood can turn quite ordinary females into heroines . . . ~ Kate Saunders

Kids are simple creatures, ruled by greed and fear and an eternal reluctance to go to the toilet. ~ Niels Saunders

The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven. ~ George Saunders

The best way to coerce people is through guilt and fear. It's why religion's done such smashing business for thousands of years. ~ Niels Saunders

Even the nuns went racist after the convent was reappraised and it seemed their pension fund was in jeopardy. ~ George Saunders

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. ~ George Saunders

flourished between three generations ~ Jemma J. Saunders

Seek peace and pursue it.' ~Psalm 34:14 ~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

So say you are charged with, you and some of your colleagues, lifting a heavy dead whale carcass onto a flatbed. ~ George Saunders

Why sad? Don't be sad. If sad, will make everyone sad. ~ George Saunders

A person supporting [Donald]Trump likes Trump. And I think they would say the same about me. ~ George Saunders

Two passing temporariness developed feelings for one another. Two puffs of smoke became mutually fond. I mistook him for solidity, and now must pay. ~ George Saunders

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present. ~ George Saunders

Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such. ~ George Saunders

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America. ~ Jay Saunders Redding

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived. ~ George Saunders

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion, ~ George Saunders

A penny saved is twopence dear. ~ Richard Saunders

Deer Reeder: First may I say, sorry for any werds I spel rong. Because I am a fox! So don't rite or spel perfect. ~ George Saunders

I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave.
The Great Divider ~ George Saunders

Ma was out back, head in hands, weaving in and out of her heaped-up crap. It was both melodramatic and not. I mean, when Ma feels something deeply, that's what she does: melodrama. Which makes it, I guess, not melodrama? ~ George Saunders

Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile. ~ George Saunders

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine. ~ Arthur Frederick Saunders

I believe that God opens doors but closes them if you don't act when given the opportunity. ~ Shellie M. Saunders

I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd. ~ Jennifer Saunders

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain. ~ George Saunders

When you are doing chemo, you have a load of time. ~ Jennifer Saunders

As I moved about the room I would encounter that silver wedge of a moon at this window or that, like some old beggar who wished to be invited in. ~ George Saunders

Think of how lovely it all could have been had anything gone right, and then I think: Oh heavens, why prolong it, I've no income now. ~ George Saunders

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. ~ George Saunders

I wander cowboy sidewalks of wood, wearing a too-small hat, filled with remorse for the many lives I failed to lead. ~ George Saunders

Ben sighed, his mouth crammed with biscuit. "You don't trust us at all, do you? You think we're going to whip out our knobs between courses and show you up. ~ Kate Saunders

The things we do to eat! Running from scorpions the size of small dogs, dodging 10 foot long rattlesnakes and squashing monster spiders - all in a days work ~ Gail Saunders-Smith

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering. ~ Jennifer Saunders

Is this the baby?" I said.
Ma turned on me again.
"What do you think it is?" she said. "A midget that can't talk? ~ George Saunders

I never allowed myself to forget how it had felt to be young and in love. ~ Kate Saunders

Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically. ~ George Saunders

It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall. ~ Billy Joe Saunders

Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality. ~ Saunders Mac Lane

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it. ~ George Saunders

People like him had these weird thick skins. You insult them to their face and it whistles past their ears. They take irony as compliments and barely even notice your wittiest retorts. When ~ Niels Saunders

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. ~ George Saunders

Kill every dog, every cat, she said slowly. Kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish. Anyone objects, kill them too. ~ George Saunders

contemplate
why honeysuckle always
climbs the tree clockwise

if it is the sun
who chases
the moon
or vice versa ~ Kirli Saunders

Instant coffee is just old beans that have been cremated. ~ Jennifer Saunders

Porsches are a great drive. ~ Jennifer Saunders

My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day. ~ George Saunders

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle. ~ George Saunders

Don't think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical. ~ George Saunders

I have plenty of friends," she says.
"Name one."
She looks at me.
Which I guess is sort of sweet. ~ George Saunders

Because no one ever wanted to admit to being in love. Love was too confusing and traitorous to the self. Too dangerous. ~ Kendra L. Saunders

He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll. ~ George Saunders

By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, which changed your perceptions. ~ George Saunders

But hereby resolve to write in this book at least twenty minutes a night. (If discouraged, just think of how much will have been recorded for posterity after one mere year!) (September 5) Oops. Missed a day. ~ George Saunders

I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete. ~ Ben Saunders