"What does this mean? It means I get to spend the morning having the hair ripped off my body while Peeta sleeps in."

-- Suzanne Collins

#Morning Quotes #Mean Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached ...”

Source : Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers
“And I know Iâ€™ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. â€œAs the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,â€ the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,â€ let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.â€ â€œTodd?â€ Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. â€œIâ€™m sorry,â€ I whisper to her. â€œIâ€™m so sorry.â€ Weâ€™ve run right into a trap. Weâ€™ve run right off the end of the world. â€œWelcome,â€ says the Mayor,â€ to the New Prentisstown.”
“It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.”
“Sometimes things aren't a dream because you don't really think it's a possibility. So my goal on a daily basis is just to go to work and be someone that people like to be around. I just want to work hard and be nice to people, and I feel like when you touch people in that way, on a more personal level, then they go to work the next day pushing for you. And that's when an opportunity comes that you wouldn't have even expected otherwise.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican.”

Source : Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing
“When you grow up, your heart dies.”

Source : Jaime Clarke, Ally Sheedy (2007). “Don't you forget about me: contemporary writers on the films of John Hughes”, Gallery
“The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.”
“Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.”

Source : Tony Hoagland (1998). “Donkey Gospel: Poems”, Graywolf Press

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