There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own imprudence, by the reckless Salina pride; and now, just at the moment when her memories had come alive again after so many years, she found herself even without the solace of being able to blame her own unhappiness on others, a solace which is the last protective device of the desperate.


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From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little re...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings,...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my pa...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but ...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solem...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and pot...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
Jeff VanderMeer's fiction has always been entrancingly, engagingly, enthusiastically weird, a wi...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
Certainly the highest posthumous praise that can be conferred upon any writer is the assertion that ...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place t...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you h...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when e...
LORENZO DI BONAVENTURA
Africa is a very dangerous place.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader.
PAUL DI FILIPPO
Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justificati...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's ...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of ...
GIOTTO DI BONDONE
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old ...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners.
JANINE DI GIOVANNI
I find 'Edward Scissorhands' a very inspiring movie - it's one of the first movies about...
DENISE DI NOVI
You have to be ECSTATIC about the benefits that your product brings to your consumer. Your energy an...
JOHN DI LEMME
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
GIOTTO DI BONDONE
Allow your rainy season to feed the seed in your heart so that you can mature to the next level in l...
JOHN DI LEMME
Your results are the product of either personal focus or personal distractions. The choice is yours.
JOHN DI LEMME
When you choose to change and commit to your future, you are going to create controversy with the pe...
JOHN DI LEMME
There is a reason for every season. If you don’t have the season of emotional darkness, then you c...
JOHN DI LEMME
The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.
LORENZO DI BONAVENTURA
Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media,...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.
ELIO DI RUPO
much ado about nothing.
LAWRENCE DI RITA
The allegations were serious and the issue is a serious one. The inspector general concluded that it...
LAWRENCE DI RITA
If you ignore your dream, it will die!
JOHN DI LEMME
Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity's long, s...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
97% of people are not committed to anything. When the wind changes, they go the other way.
JOHN DI LEMME
A committed person is focused on his ultimate destination.
JOHN DI LEMME
Champions have a cement commitment. Is your commitment built on sand or on cement?
JOHN DI LEMME
Focused, determined champions win races. Distracted people become losers in the race of life.
JOHN DI LEMME
Say it - “I am a champion. I am a champion chooser. I choose to commit to change because I’m wil...
JOHN DI LEMME
You have to be on your game and in your zone to win the game of life.
JOHN DI LEMME
Life is a one time opportunity to be the very best that you can be so why do so many people waste it...
JOHN DI LEMME
War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in ...
PAUL DI FILIPPO
When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, ...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI