"Itâ€™s funny how one summer can change everything."

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Sarah Dessen

“You donâ€™t have to be perfect to be pretty.”
“Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.”
“Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized weâ€™ve become.”
“Not until we have taken a look into the future shall we be strong and bold enough to investigate our paste honestly and impartially”

Source : Erich von Däniken (1999). “Chariots of the gods: unsolved mysteries of the past”, Berkley Pub Group
“There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.”
“Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to kill yourself. This is asked of people who haven't got the tools to understand that it's all a social construction, and that they shouldn't inferiorize themselves. This is asked of little kids. But I still live in the same outcome.”

Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.
“Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.”

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