"Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record."

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Source : Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Barry Lyga

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“Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.”
“The fact that Cornish exists at all is just incredible as is the work that people are doing down there, it's such an important part of who people are.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.83
“Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.”
“And Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece.”
“We donâ€™t discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves.”
“They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.”

Source : Malcolm Cowley (1982). “The view from 80”, Penguin Books, 1982
“A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.”

Source : "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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