"Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else."

-- Helen Keller

“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.”

Source : The Lovely Bones ch. 23 (2002)
“Cupcakes are the tattooed brunette chick of the baked goods world.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jan 29, 2012
“Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home ...”

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.172, Penguin
“The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen.”
“Red meat is not really bad for a person. Now, blue-green meat - that's damaging of you!”
“Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?”
“My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.”

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