"She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend. --City of Ember--"

-- Jeanne DuPrau

#Heart Quotes #Dark Quotes #Cities Quotes

“the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.”

Source : Becky Freeman (1998). “The Best of Becky Freeman”, Inspirational Press
“To reach new areas, you have to get your brain out of its comfort zone. There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.”

Source : "The Easiest Way to Get a Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.oprah.com. September 2015.
“I like the freedom of being able to just use the live show as an opportunity to more so deconstruct what's going on in the album than to recreate it.”

Source : Source: www.nyctaper.com
“My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.”
“As a model, I'm used to having my body scrutinized, and I have a tough skin so I can shake it off. I know I'm the only person that gets to decide how my body should look.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“Gratitude is the great multiplier.”
“Any sport that lasts six minutes, that's it, you can just imagine how intense it is, only six minutes long.If you try something, if you try a move, if you take a single leg takedown and it doesn't work, you don't give up. You don't give up; you will succeed. I think it's very parallel with the stuff that you have to do in the real world.”
“My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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