Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

I'm Italian.

Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the word LAUGH is linguistically related to chickens and pie? This is the book that any of us who urgently, passionately love words-to read them, roll them over the tongue and learn their life stories while laughing and eating chicken and pie-were lucky enough to be born to read.

When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with.

We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

Viva Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere! ... Pusha da button!

is this fragile love/ a way/ to say/ goodbye

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

Hey, don't take this the wrong way, but don't come back, ok?

[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].

But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye.

Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao." I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.

I tell everyone a different story. That way nothing's ever boring, even when they turn and say goodbye.

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a librettist for Broadway musicals.

[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.