"We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong."

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Source : Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Rachel Cohn

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“All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.”
“There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.”
“IÂ hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.”
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

Source : Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“My father was one of ten children.”
“There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.”
“The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.”

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