"Even ashes are a part of your freedom."

-- Sarah Waters

“My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.”
“Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.”
“Everybody has a home team: It's the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It's the people who, near or far, know everything that's wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they're at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.”
“Love is a sweet thing caught a momentand held in a golden eye.”
“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we canâ€™t appreciate what we have”
“When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.”

Source : Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2010.
“I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?”
“I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.”

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