"You were the best friend I ever had, Allie. I'd still like to be friends, even if you are engaged, and even if it is just for a couple of days."

“I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.”

Source : "Helen Oyeyemi: 'I'm interested in the way women disappoint one another'". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2014.

“I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'm not trying to convert the entire nation of Israel and the entire nation of Palestine to Christianity. But at least if you can educate them about the ideology of love, the ideology of forgiveness, the ideology of grace. Those principles are great regardless, but we can't deny they came from Christianity as well.”

“Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.59, Faber & Faber

“all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war”

“We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.”

“Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.”

“By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.”