Atlas Quotes - Page 4

• Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

  Nancy Mairs

  Two, Fiction, Fountainhead

  Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan.

  Rosita Forbes

  Travel, Feet, Leviathan

  Rosita Forbes (1928). “Adventure”

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• For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Dream, Memories, Grief

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• A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of them illustrate a collection of gruesome stories, murders and suicides which contrast with the images used. There is a contrast between the message carried by the text and that suppressed by the illustration.

  Gerhard Richter

  Suicide, Art, Illustration

  Gerhard Richter, Sean Rainbird, Tate Gallery (1991). “Gerhard Richter”, Tate Gallery Publication

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• As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion was Beirut, where he went to nursery school. His family left there in the midsixties and moved to the Congo. After that, it was Ethiopia, and then Somalia, all fine places in his opinion. 'Let's save Africa and the Middle East for when I decide to quit living,' I said.

  David Sedaris

  Running, School, Middle East

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• I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Thinking, Gabriel

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside.

  Lisi Harrison

  Crush, Girl, Flirting

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