"As for anticipation, you never know what to expect of a book. They're like kids: you bring them into the world, fret about them, and then at some point there's no other option but to turn them lose and see how they do."

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Elizabeth Crook

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“All I can do is be my best - there will always be people who will never like me.”

Source : "Jamie Lynn Spears: "The Last Time Anyone Heard From Me, I Was 16 and Pregnant"". Interview with Wendy Shanker, www.glamour.com. February 1, 2012.
“Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.”
“We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.”
“In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.”
“The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.157, Vintage
“A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!”
“Fools are wise until they speak.”
“I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.”

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