"I write about the things that haunt or obsess me."

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Caroline Leavitt

#Writing Quotes

“My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something toÂ someone.”
“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.”
“I create books for six-year-olds. I don't know why that time of my life was so important to me, but no matter what I draw, it always looks like it comes from a children's book. I can't resist. I'll set out to paint a serious picture then think, "Well, maybe there would be a little bunny in that corner."”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.”
“Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.”
“That isn't how I've always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way.”

Source : "Gay Marriage Wins Another Convert" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2013.
“Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.”

Source : Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.3, Ballantine Books
“We don't have enough solid organs for transplantation; not enough kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs. When you get a liver and you have three people who need it, who should get it? We tried to come up with an ethically defensible answer. Because we have to choose.”

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