"Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run."

“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

“I left home because I was hungry.”

“If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.”

“I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans”

“Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.”

Source : "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

“A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.”

“If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.”

“Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?”

Source : Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.304, Delacorte Books for Young Readers