"You like me, Josie Moraine. You just don't know it yet."

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Ruta Sepetys

“It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.”
“Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.”

Source : Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”
“Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.”
“The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.”
“Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.”

Source : Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher
“Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.”
“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and the snow - soaked soil just warming into life.”
“Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Highway of Eternity”, p.158, Open Road Media

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