"There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin."

-- Flannery O'Connor

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“Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love.”
“I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes.”
“I let go of the past and choose to accept every situation as being for me and not against me.”
“I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.”
“The hope of reward is the solace of labor.”
“I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.”
“I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.”

Source : "Exclusive: The Vampire Diaries' Kat Graham on Heartbreak, The Spice Girls, and Wearing Black in the Summer". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 20, 2012.
“Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.”

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