"I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it."

“But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him.”

Source : Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.204, Ballantine Books

“Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.”

“Boxing is really hard because you have to be in really good shape to have all those rules and just using your hands.”

“The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.”

“For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.199, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

“I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.”

“What's a domestic partnership? Domestic partnership is not even a marriage, and there's a contract that involves, potentially, sexual and financial commitments to each other. In this case, however, the guy is also charging one dollar, and that is his undoing.”

Source : "The Situation with Tucker Carlson", www.nbcnews.com. March 20, 2006.

“If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.”