"I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some sad stuff, and a lot of painful memories, because my life has often been dark, sad, and painful. I didn't want to sugarcoat anything."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Kate Christensen

#Memories Quotes #Writing Quotes #Dark Quotes

“The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.”
“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
“I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant to use a fairy tale to talk about that.”
“I am not a creature of habit.”
“We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withheld for a moment. When Mr. Lyell finds, as a witty friend lately reported that there had been found, a silver-spoon in grauwacke, or a locomotive engine in mica-schist, then, but not sooner, shall we enrol ourselves disciples of the Cyclical Theory of Geological formations.”
“I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That's where I go.”
“If you want truth you should begin by giving it.”

Source : Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.528, Macmillan
“Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.”

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