"Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free."

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Source : Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

Lauren DeStefano

#Skulls Quotes #Bird Quotes #Mind Quotes

“We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.”
“Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day, there'd be long lines and gasoline shortages, just as there were in the 1970s. For the average consumer, a $1.60 a gallon selling price and no waiting lines is a darn sight cheaper than a controlled $1 a gallon price plus searching for a gasoline station that has gas and then waiting in line. If your average purchase is 10 gallons, and if an hour or so of your time is worth more that $6, the $1.60 a gallon free market price is cheaper.”
“And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spacesâ€”spaces you know can't ever be filled.”

Source : Bette Greene (2000). “Summer of my German soldier”
“When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.”

Source : Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.16, Random House
“The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.”

Source : Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher
“A lot of times the movies I think are the funniest are dramas. I feel like dramas are so much funnier because they're actually capturing human beings. Humans are so weird and clumsy, and that, to me, often makes me laugh more.”
“I am drinking the stars”
“People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.”

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