"Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs."

“It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.”

“And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you know that you love someone, those things don't matter. You have to push all the everyday things and the outside world away, and just enjoy knowing that this is the man who has the chest your head is meant to lie on.”

Source : Erin McCarthy (2010). “Hot Finish”, p.161, Penguin

“Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.”

Source : Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.17, Univ of California Press

“Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.”

“I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.”

“Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.”

“Stand for right, even if you stand alone.”

Source : "Examples of Righteousness". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2008.

“The historian records, but the novelist creates.”