"I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire."

-- Bill Ayers

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“How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.”

Source : Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.93, Pan Macmillan
“Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, "I am the good one," it doesn't work.”
“Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.”

Source : James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.64
“To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.”
“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.”

Source : "La Vie de Toulouse-Lautrec' (T-Lautrec)". Book by Henri Perruchot translated by Humphrey Hare (p. 76), 1960/1961.
“Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.”
“You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.”
“Thatâ€™s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we donâ€™t want to talk about ourselves.”

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