"In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars."

-- Alice Hoffman

#Senior Quotes #Stars Quotes #Real Quotes

“Attract them by the way you live.”
“That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.”
“A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.”
“I felt like I was cheating myself of those communities and cheating the audience because I wasn't able to know them. That's what the bikes did, without me having to put any arbitrary philosophy on what it was supposed to be. It enabled human connection.”

Source : "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.”
“Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.”

Source : "Jonas Mekas: the man who inspired Andy Warhol to make films". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2012.
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934
“I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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