"Yalena: Could you always open your door? Kiki: Yes. Fence, too. Yalena Why don't you? Kiki: Hay sweet. Fresh water. Peppermints."

-- Maria V. Snyder

#Sweet Quotes #Doors Quotes #Water Quotes

“Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”

Source : Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.135, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
“... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.”
“There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye”

Source : Keith Johnstone (2012). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.92, Routledge
“The earth itself is a great big magnet.”

Source : Edward Leedskalnin (1988). “Magnetic Current”, p.4, Health Research Books
“There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segregation. For the dishonesty upon which a society is founded makes every emotion suspect, makes it impossible to know whether what flowed between two people was honest feeling or pity or pragmatism.(Howell Raines's Pulitzer Prize winning article "Grady's Gift")-Sockett admired this quote and used it in her summary...”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2011). “The Help”, p.688, Penguin UK
“The enlightened world will be one in which everyone is in love with everyone all the time. We will see each other as God created us: as the perfect, loving, and lovable people we really are. The purpose of romantic love is to jump-start our enlightenment.”
“They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a lot of black people saying 'Oh, the '50s, that was when America was great.' It's very dangerous because the past was imperfect, and you can't go back anyway.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.”

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