"I'm no longer willing to let myself down."

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Source : Sarah Jio (2014). “Goodnight June: A Novel”, p.98, Penguin

Sarah Jio

#Inspiration Quotes #Willing Quotes

“A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.”
“The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.”
“I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.”
“I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.”
“Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.”
“Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to affirm the divine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens us at the deepest level of our being to an act which unites us most realistically with our fellow people.”
“I think if you're not going to look so daft walking down the street split your workouts a little bit.”
“Simon: Anyone ever tell you your sense of timing really sucks? Derek: That's why I don't play the drums. Now what's up?”

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