"Love can complete you. It can also destroy you."

-- Ellen Hopkins

“Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.â€ I touched Adamâ€™s arm. â€œHeâ€™s my hero.â€ There was another pause. . . â€œThat is the most romantic thing Iâ€™ve ever heard you say,â€ Bran said. â€œBe careful, Adam, or youâ€™ll turn her into a real girl.â€ Adam looked at me. â€œI like her just the way she is, Bran.â€ And he meant it, greasy overalls, broken fingernails, and all.”
“I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.”
“So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre”
“After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.”
“When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.”
“Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.”
“I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eyeballs.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.”

Source : Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “The Art of Power”, p.19, Harper Collins

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