"If you're in a painful place, be there, feel it, but don't stay stuck there. Do what you've got to do to get out of there. And if you're in a really joyful place, believe that that's not going to last either."

“Thanks to God that he gave me stubborness when I know I am right.”

“Just asleep," Eddis reassured her. At the sound of her voice Eugenides's head turned slightly, but he didn't wake. Attolia, seeing the movement, breathed again and pressed her hand to her chest where it hurt.”

“Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”

“Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world , every sinful indulgence of our own passions , is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness , and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick bed with thorns and rack our sinking spirits with despair .”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 547), 1895.

“I love horror movies, but it's not the only thing I want to do.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.”

“When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.”

Source : "Not My Job: Skier Mikaela Shiffrin Gets Quizzed On Downhill Cheese Races". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 11, 2014.