"I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian."

-- Clare Balding

“At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill.”
“I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.”

Source : Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2000.
“One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity.”
“We must first give to life if we expect life to give anything in return. This is the divine law.”
“I would go back in time and do differently it is that. I would go back and ask, 'Why?' But I never did. I got up, he got up, we went on about our day. We never discussed the situation [with Dre]. Just, never.”
“Seriously. Dados bounce." Bobby in Raven Rise”
“In your eyes the light the heat in your eyes I am complete in your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches in your eyes the resolution of all the fruitless searches in your eyes I see the light and the heat in your eyes oh, I want to be that complete I want to touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes”

Source : Song: In Your Eyes
“I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.”

Source : Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale (2018). “Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets”, p.94, Courier Dover Publications

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