"Somehow, while I wasn't looking, I fell. And I fell hard."

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Source : M. Leighton (2013). “Up to Me”, p.121, Penguin

M. Leighton

“They're not bullying you because of you,they're bullying you because of how they are”
“Despite Langdonâ€™s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French policeâ€¦in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.”
“You canâ€™t understand light unless you understand darkness, because thatâ€™s where life is most often lived â€“ somewhere between the two. Itâ€™s messy and itâ€™s beautiful all at the same time,”
“People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.”
“As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.”
“A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust”

Source : "17 Questions with Beau Mirchoff". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 27, 2012.
“We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.”
“I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.”

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