"For some, excavating the past isnâ€™t an adventure, itâ€™s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound."

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Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

Raquel Cepeda

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“I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you - oh you, who the wildest yearn For an old-time step, and the glad return, Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here. Think of him still as the same. I say, He is not dead - he is just away.”

Source : James Whitcomb Riley (1982). “The Best of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.107, Indiana University Press
“Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears...”

Source : Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié (2010). “Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound”, p.225, Simon and Schuster
“The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.”
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
“I don't have any hobbies because my working job is my hobby. What I do is I spend my whole time looking through telescopes and having brain scans and buying books about various different ideas and I just sit around, that's my life.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.”
“All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.”
“Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.”

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