"I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid."

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Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.22, Macmillan

Laurie Halse Anderson

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“The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.”

Source : Lisa Alther (2017). “The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven”, p.144, Open Road Media
“Patience is nobler motion than any deed.”

Source : "Radical Problems". Book by C. A. Bartol, 1872.
“I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with racism everyday. I'm the first black to wear the jersey of Italy. I'm not angry, but my life experiencies make me act differently from other people. Then, try to learn more before you criticize me.”
“Why can't we have a voice? What's the difference between an athlete having millions or Donald Trump? Every time a politician talks, they talk about what's wrong with America. Well, he's an athlete who is also saying something is wrong with America. Why is it that when he talks, people say, 'How can he talk about oppression and make millions?' Well, Trump is talking about it. Hillary Clinton is talking about it. And they have more money than most athletes.”
“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.”
“Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.”

Source : In 'Historia Placitorum Coronae' (ed. Sollom Emlyn, 1736)
“But nothing will ever change if we keep pretend. People 'live out loud', as you say, not merely for themselves but for a more honest future.”
“[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them”

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