"I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue."

-- Michael Shannon

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“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaperâ€”memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.
“Every child is a gifted child,”
“I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.”

Source : "Serinda Swan on 'Graceland' and Her Go-To Red-Carpet Designers". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. January 30, 2013.
“What I love about my husband is that he really allows me to be the best person I can.”
“Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.”
“We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.”

Source : William Glasser, MD (2013). “Take Charge of Your Life: How to Get What You Need with Choice-Theory Psychology”, p.2, iUniverse
“The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money.”
“As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly â€œinertâ€ letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.”

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