"I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don't know how to figure out what they mean. I can't tell where they start or if they will end. But I know this. If they shrink my head any more, or float me away on an ocean of pills, I will never return."

-- Laurie Halse Anderson

#Memories Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Mean Quotes

“If you had a sign above every studio door saying â€˜This Studio is a Musical Instrumentâ€™ it would make such a different approach to recording.”
“My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.”
“She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...”
“Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.”
“For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.”
“I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.”
“Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.”
“The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.”

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