"We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award"

-- Kate DiCamillo

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“My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”
“Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it.”

Source : Tom Brady Press Conference at Gillette Stadium, www.courant.com. January 22, 2015.
“To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.”
“How do you know when you're finished making love?”
“Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as 'consumers.'”
“We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.”
“It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.”
“Hands have their own language.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.106, Oneworld Publications

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