"I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us."

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Source : Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

Chris Cleave

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“But I really would love to give her a very special gift. I was hoping if I did, she might give me a kiss in return, instead of the brotherly hugs I always get instead.”

Source : Jessica Day George (2012). “Dragonskin Slippers”, p.320, A&C Black
“The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.”

Source : Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience”
“Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.”
“There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.”
“What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.”
“Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?”
“I used to be someone.”
“The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.”

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