"Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My arms feel all floppy, like flightless wings. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I looked like a very sad penguin."

-- Sarah Rees Brennan

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“You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's outside of what you see from a magazine.”

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“I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.”
“I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.”
“There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!”

Source : "'Downton Abbey' Cast Spills Secrets on Hollywood Ambitions at Season 3's U.S. Premiere". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2012.
“I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.”
“I had always imagined that ClichÃ© was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”

Source : Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”
“For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
“It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.”

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