"I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there."

--

Source : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, www.e-reading.club. September 2, 2013.

“Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.”
“I'm the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne I'm deep by sound alone, caved inside in a thousand miles from home”
“I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.”
“God notices you. The fact is he can't take his eyes off of you. However badly you think of yourself, God is crazy about you. God is in love with you. Some of us even fear that someday we'll do something so bad that he won't notice us anymore. Well, let me tell you, God loves you completely. And he knew us at our worst before he ever began to love us at all. And in the love of God there are no degrees, there is only love.”
“My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.”
“The pure products of America go crazy”
“There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.”
“My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.”

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