"Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths."

-- Martha Graham

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“Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he's gonna be back bigger and stronger.”
“If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.”
“I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.”

Source : Works 'A Treatise on Gout and Dropsy' (transl. R. G. Latham) (1683)
“Promise me youâ€™ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.â€ Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble, and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak. â€œYes,â€ she whispered back. â€œI promise.â€ And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day.”
“Oh, you crows! Feast away! What a spread! Soup straight from the eye sockets! And thick red sake! But don't have too much Or you'll surely get drunk.”
“You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.”

Source : Philip Reeve (2012). “Predator Cities #1: Mortal Engines”, p.246, Scholastic Inc.
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.”
“You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.”

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