"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."

“I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.”

“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.”

“Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?”

Source : "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

“Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.”

Source : Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”

“I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.”

Source : Sarra Manning (2011). “You Don't Have to Say You Love Me”, p.241, Random House

“Hyunseung is the least likely to hurt me if I take his food. It's easy.”

“Chavo or Kerwin White or whatever his name is! He called me stupid.”

“the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.”