"A parent has to be silent much of the time."

“First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.”

Source : "Station Eleven: A novel". Book by Emily St. John Mandel, 2014.

“You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.”

“How intense could you be? Can you be intense enough to pick this 500Lbs off the floor? Are you intense enough to pick this 700Lbs up? Squat down to the floor and stand back up? So what if your eyes are bloodshot! So what if your bones feel like snapping! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO!”

“My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.”

“O starry night, This is how I want to die”

“I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.”

“Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from it. ... No, what I mean is that Scotland's beauties, though undeniable, are obvious ones, easy to carry in the heart, easy even to describe to the benighted members of less fortunate races. Lakes, islands and mountains, heather and rowan, broad straths and narrow glens - these are jewels easily worn in the memory ...”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

“Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.”