"And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King."

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Source : FaceBook post by Julie Otsuka from Dec 18, 2016

Julie Otsuka

#Girl Quotes #Dream Quotes #Queens Quotes

“When you define the audience, the performer becomes what the audience wants. Politicians do that all the time.”
“The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.”
“I think rock records tend to be very expensive.”
“Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.”

Source : "Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.
“Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.”
“I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.”

Source : "‘Arrow’: John Barrowman talks archery, ‘Doctor Who’ anniversary". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 12, 2012.
“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”

Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.77, Granta Books
“Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.”

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