"She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed."

“Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.”

“But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”

“I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.”

“I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.”

Source : "Pauly D Interview: ‘Jersey Shore’ Star Talks Britney Spears & ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Drama" by Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

“I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.”

“[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.”

Source : Cheris Kramarae (1992). “Amazons, Bluestockings and Crones: A Feminist Dictionary”, Pandora Press

“Don't choose the better guy, choose the guy that's gonna make you the better girl”

“When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.”