"There were so many different influences in my life: being half Mexican and half Irish, growing up an only child of immigrant parents, being bullied in school, feeling alienated and lonely, this undertone of darkness. All that culminated and came out in my music and made it different."

-- Lindi Ortega

#Lonely Quotes #Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.”

Source : Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.105, Indiana University Press
“About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.”

Source : HERMAN WOUK (1955). “MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR”
“Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.”
“What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.”
“Thereâ€™s definitely been a change this year â€” and Iâ€™d like to have a boyfriend.”
“I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.”
“Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.”
“People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.”

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