"My problem was that I felt ashamed of feeling sad or angry. Now, I don't hide my vulnerability in my lyrics. There's no way I was going to get raped and not get something out of it. I learned about power and hope and forgiveness. I like who I am now and I wouldn't be who I am if that hadn't happened."

-- Fiona Apple

#Who I Am Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Feeling Sad Quotes

“We're conducting an investigation to understand whether there was any coordination between the Russian efforts and anybody associated with the Trump campaign.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.”
“A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.”
“So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.”
“True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.”
“On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.”
“Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.”
“But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.97, Penguin

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