"What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that."

-- Libba Bray

#Girl Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I am at best on the C list for Pope.”

Source : "In God's Name". Book by David Yallop, ch. 2 : The Empty Throne, 1984.
“Experiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy.”
“I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.”
“If God gave Dad Alzheimerâ€™s, Heâ€™s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.”
“We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.”
“Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.”
“We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.”

Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176
“Politics swings like a pendulum.”

Source : "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. April 12, 2005.

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