"Koschei, Koschei,â€ she whispered. â€œWhat would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Girl Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Bird Quotes

“As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.”
“When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.”

Source : "Congressman wants McClellan to testify under oath". www.cnn.com. May 30, 2008.
“I jumped up in the bubble, yo kid where are you? (114 between Manhattan and Morningside Avenue) This happened just right out the blue”
“I was in a supermarket and I saw Paul Newman's face on salad dressing and spaghetti sauce....I thought he was missing.”
“There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.”
“Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut up.”
“A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.”
“War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.”

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