"Listen to the voice that speaks inside"

-- Shel Silverstein

“We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.”
“We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets.”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2013). “The Temptation of Your Touch”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
“If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I know no longer. And all I had? Vanished in an instant.There's nothing I can keep with me that will stay.I must always re-establish ties.I must tread carefulle or give myself away.I must survive.I must keep moving, but I don't know why.”

Source : "Book Talk: Exiled angel on journey back to her past". Interview with Elaine Lies, www.reuters.com. December 8, 2010.
“I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional idea is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.”

Source : Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.155, Pan Macmillan
“Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not.”

Source : Kimberly Kirberger (1999). “Teen Love, On Relationships: A Book For Teenagers”, HCI Teens
“Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.”
“I believe in nothing but it is my nothing.”

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