"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."

-- Sara Sheridan

#Book Quotes #Mind Quotes #Pages Quotes

“Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.”
“I've always loved the rush you get from watching a really scary movie, but I never watch them alone. It's fun to turn out the lights and scream and clutch someone's hand and spill the popcorn all over the place and hide under each other.”
“You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.”
“Mend it, fix it, make do, or do without.”
“Become one of the rare people who don't know how to quit.”
“Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer [wrt lack of successful "conscious" music]... 'Traditional' music was brand new at one time... When you hear R&B today, do you believe it?”
“You should not ask questions without knowledge.”
“If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you.”

Source : Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

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