"I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly."

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Source : "How I Write: Lisa Scottoline & Daughter Francesca Serritella". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. November 14, 2012.

Lisa Scottoline

#Heart Quotes #Names Quotes #Philadelphia Quotes

“I once gave a girl a bloody fake ear in a Tiffany jewelry box with a letter that said, â€œwill you Gogh to prom with me?”
“It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.”
“If you own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. 1/3rd of the world does not have access to even one.”
“I don't want anyone to be afraid. I don't anyone to hold back who they are.”

Source : "Youtube star Connor Franta comes out as gay in tearful, emotional video" by Jessica Hyndman, www.mtv.com. December 08, 2014.
“So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.”

Source : Pliny (the Younger.), Betty Radice (1969). “Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny”, Heinemann ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
“...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting”
“To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ who is our life.”
“There is no progress in art.”

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