"... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said."

-- Marisha Pessl

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“To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.”
“I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.”
“I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselvesâ€”and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again.”
“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
“My music is just as much me as it is everybody else.”

Source : Source: respect-mag.com
“Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self.”
“Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.”
“Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.”

Source : "The Nitrogen Fix".

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