"My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one"

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Source : Amy Plum (2016). “Inside the World of Die for Me”, p.26, HarperCollins

Amy Plum

#Mom Quotes #Real Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Superhero power... I probably would just want to fly. I definitely would not want to be able to see through walls. I think walls are there for a reason. People put them up for a reason. You don't want to be looking through them. That would only cause nothing but misery and angst to know what's happening behind people's walls.”
“When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.”
“Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.”
“Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?”
“My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.”
“Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.”
“Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.”
“I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.”

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

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