"She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it"

-- Betty Smith

#Pain Quotes #Oil Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.”

Source : Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There are times I can't even figure myself out.”
“In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.”

Source : Lincoln Kirstein (1952). “The Classic Ballet, Basic Technique and Terminology”
“Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months.”
“Hey, I work one full hour a day!”
“I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.”
“I want it all... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.”

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