"To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to hate to love, or that you have to die to live. I mean that sometimes, you turn out the lights just to turn them back on."

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Source : Alaya Dawn Johnson (2013). “The Summer Prince”, p.95, Scholastic Inc.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

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“Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish someday.”
“You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.”
“I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.”
“Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.”
“Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.”

Source : "Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission". www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2012.
“I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.”
“My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.”
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”

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