"The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure."

“Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.”

Source : Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

“In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.”

“There have been misperceptions that we're trying to make all the information open on Facebook, and that's completely false. There are big buckets of information that we recommend that you share with only your friends privately. Then some of the more basic information, we recommend that that's visible to everyone.”

“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”

“I think it doesn't matter what color you are. Everybody is getting the - getting the stick, and I'm sure Trump feels the same way.”

“I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.”

“I'm actually really shy.”

Source : "The Man with No Bones" by Amanda Dobbins, www.gq.com. October 24, 2011.

“Every morning I look in the mirror and make a promise to myself. To stop acting like this today. That Mi Soo is a good friend. That John only loves me. But it doesn't work that well. I feel like I'm going crazy if John even smiles at Mi Soo. Even when they sit across from one another! I really feel like I'm going to die.”