"no' when no one answered, Derek looked from face to face, then settled his glower in me. 'absolutely not.' 'um, I was the one keeping my mouth shut' I said."

-- Kelley Armstrong

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“I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.”
“Lord, take every cursed thing out of my soul that keeps me from believing the Lord Jesus Christ”
“Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.”
“Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.”
“Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.”
“I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Deahl, www.publishersweekly.com. September 10, 2009.
“Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.”
“Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.”

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