"I play every game to win, it is not in my nature to throw a game."

“Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide; If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.”

“It's about paying attention to the little things, the details... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.”

“Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.”

Source : Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.14, Anchor

“The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.”

“I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.322, Pan Macmillan

“I will stay at Arsenal forever. There will be no transfer for me. I love London. I've got a house there, I'm happy there and I don't see any reason to ever leave the club.”

“Yeah school girl, cool girl. Your dress is sexy and your momma is a cougar.”

“When I'm directing, I really try not to be tied to anything. I don't even have the sides in my hands. I have other things - ideas that I want to make sure I don't forget or that I want to accomplish. The endeavor isn't about propping up the screenplay; but about the communal effort of exploration from a lot of different departments - the actors, the DP, the costume designer - all these people and myself.”

Source : Source: collider.com