"Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power."

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Ellen Hopkins

#Nice Quotes #Belief Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in The Bling Ring. I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.”
“I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.”

Source : Jayson Blair (2004). “Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times”, New Millenium
“Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.”
“Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.”
“I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.”
“I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.”

Source : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.452, Hachette UK
“Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.”
“Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.”

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