"She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty."

-- Cinda Williams Chima

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“I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.”

Source : Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”
“It's really hard to perfect one aspect of your kicking game when you're spending some of your time kicking with a holder, some of your time kicking off a tee, and some of your time drop-kicking the ball. To be able to concentrate just on my punting responsibilities will do wonders for me.”
“You know, there's a thing about the woman across the room. You see the woman across the room, you think, She's so poised; she's so together. But she looks at you and you are the woman across the room for her.”

Source : "Diane von Furstenberg: Unwrapped". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 14, 2009.
“Life is never quite like the brochure.”
“My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.”
“It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the first Article's assurance.”

Source : "Thomas v. Collins, 323 U.S. 516". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 8, 1945.
“The Patch I knew didn't run from anyone.”

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