"The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people."

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Source : Isobelle Carmody (2009). “Alyzon Whitestarr”, p.499, Random House Books for Young Readers

Isobelle Carmody

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“My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.”
“Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.”
“Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.”
“The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.”
“I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.”
“Every day, President Obama sends a beautiful message about how we should treat our women based on how he treats his wife. When people went after his wife during the campaign, he took a stand.”
“I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.”
“My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.”

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