"When I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be."

-- Marcelo Garcia

“I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.”

Source : "Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.
“I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.”
“Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.”

Source : "Rexroth's Daughter". Song by Greg Brown, 2000.
“My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.”
“A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.”
“Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1854). “All for Jesus; or, The easy ways of divine love”, p.2
“I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.”
“Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure”

Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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