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“It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I'd rather stick to the pluralness of 'histories' in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.”
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“I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is.I think it is because my sizzle doesn't match anyone else's. I want something to happen so bad that it sizzles inside of me. It never stops, but it also never fits any of the choices presented.”
Source : Sarah Bird (2012). “The Gap Year”, p.70, Simon and Schuster
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“So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.”
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“I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.”
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“Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.”
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“Her iron will won international respect. Her unabashed femininity gained women's. Margaret Thatcher was a lady's lady.”
Source : Speech to CWCC, London, April 2013.
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“Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.”
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“Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.”
Source : Angela (of Foligno), Paul Lachance (1993). “Complete works”, Paulist Pr
