"Are you a man?'' The question slipped out, and she regretted it. Regretted injecting reality into this delicate, lovely dream of passion. ''I thought I had conclusively proved my manhood to you. Shall I do it again?"

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Source : Christina Dodd (2008). “Into the Shadow: Darkness Chosen”, p.20, Penguin

Christina Dodd

#Dream Quotes #Passion Quotes #Reality Quotes

“People have always told me, 'Yo, you're too unselfish. Shoot more.'”
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?”

Source : "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)
“It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe - and now Detroit - is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell, 'Stop.' You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it disappears over a cliff.”
“I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.”

Source : "Jessica Lynch: One Iraq war veteran's unique perspective" by Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2011.
“A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.”
“I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.”
“Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.”

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