"Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings."

-- Lev Grossman

“Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester United duopoly. But football leagues (look at Scotland, look at Spain) can get along OK with duopolies. A monopoly, however, is a disaster. Everyone else in the Premiership has to operate on some kind of business footing, and the terror stalking Highbury and Old Trafford is that Chelsea will be immune from financial discipline forever.”
“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”
“I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I always was fascinated by space and always wanted to learn more about it and wanted to experience it first hand by flying into space. I don't know how it began or where it began. Maybe I was born with it. Maybe it's in my genes.”

Source : "Interview with Anousheh Ansari, the First Female Space Tourist". Interview with Sara Goudarzi, www.space.com. September 15, 2006.
“There was about six months when I was absorbing other stuff and not drawing very much. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.”
“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.”
“Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.122, Metropolitan Books
“I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.”

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