"There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy."

“From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.”

Source : "Tammy Baldwin Enters Senate Race in Wisconsin" by Caitlin Huey-Burns, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 6, 2011.

“Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.374, Penguin

“It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be.”

“I was terrified of funerals.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

“Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.”

“Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.”

“He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just the only ones who let it out. Then the other people don't have to.”

“I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.”