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“Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.”
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“Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.”
Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan
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“What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?”
Source : Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks
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“The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done not to excess, but 'little by little', paulatim. For nature is pained by surfeit but rejoices in moderation. Whence also those who take drugs and antidotes constantly, or to the point of saturation, are sorely vexed, for every immoderation brings not health but danger.”
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“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.”
Source : "My discoveries weren’t any more extensive or alarming than most people’s. I just chose to look". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013. 
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“That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight”
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“Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.”
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“God's eye is on a sparrow. And I know - oh, yes, I know he watches over me...”
Source : "Soul Singer Sharon Jones: 'The Cancer Is Here, But I Want To Perform'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 28, 2016.
