"Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support."

“Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.”

“All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.”

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

“My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.”

Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.2, A&C Black

“Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned,”

“You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen”

“She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she exhaled, and then she had no more needs, no more reason; she was released from her body, and being released, she continued her journey elsewhere, high in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

“I would say that my strength is my speed and my ability to win head balls.”