"My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain."

“Imagination brings bliss at no cost”

“When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.”

“I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.”

“No two people see things the same way.”

Source : "PBS’s Judy Woodruff, Jim Lehrer reflect on prior presidential races". Interview with Betsy Rothstein, thehill.com. September 8, 2008.

“My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.”

“Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.”

Source : Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.25, Hachette UK

“I looked at a lot of the comics and I tried to just get an idea from that. Not necessarily specifics of what my look would be or what the plan would be because I knew the script was evolving. I then started the discussion with Ken, who had been in discussion with you guys, intimately. And that they'd pared it down.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.”