"No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form."

“I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care.”

“I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.”

“Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“However, every word she [Richelle Mead] wrote about Lissa in the book I highlighted and analyzed and interpreted until I felt like I’d completely absorbed her [Lissa]. So Richelle gave me insights through the pages of the book. I cried when I found out that she told the producers that I was her dream Lissa. It meant the world to me.”

“I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing”

“Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.”

“Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.”

Source : Yolande Racine, Betty Goodwin, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Art Gallery of Ontario (1987). “Betty Goodwin: oeuvres de 1971 à 1987”, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal = Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

“One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one.”