"He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower."

-- Mary Howitt

“[Growing up in rural Ohio], all of my girlfriends were cheerleaders. I'm more comfortable with straight women. I don't have any lesbian friends, sadly.”

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“There is no greater power on this earth than story.â€ Will paced the length of the room. â€œPeople think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsenseâ€”words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutionsâ€”words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.â€ Will grabbed the sheaf of newspaper clippings he kept in a stack on his desk. â€œThis, and theseâ€â€”he gestured to the libraryâ€™s teeming shelvesâ€”â€œtheyâ€™re a testament to the countryâ€™s rich supernatural history.”
“When you train your thoughts to dissolve as they arise, they will cross your mind like a bird crosses the sky--without leaving a trace.”
“You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.”
“Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life ...”
“In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.”
“Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so that public authorities may expand their efforts in the work of development? Is he prepared to pay more for imported goods, so that the foreign producer may make a fairer profit? Is he prepared to emigrate from his homeland if necessary and if he is young, in order to help the emerging nations?”
“...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.”

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