"You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?"

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T.A. Barron

#Stars Quotes #Butterfly Quotes #Wings Quotes

“The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.”

Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.
“Riley. How bad has it been?" "Just fabulous. The demonic kitten really made my night.”
“I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.193, Egmont UK
“Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners... I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That's what makes them funny and captivating.”
“Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?”

Source : "The History of Indiana, from Its Earliest Exploration by Europeans, to the Close of the Territorial Government, in 1816". Book by John Brown Dillon, www.esquire.com. 1859.
“I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.”

Source : "A Film of One’s Own". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 2006.
“We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.”
“I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.”

Source : "Kevin Durant sick of second, working for first with help of advanced stats" by Ben Golliver, www.si.com. April 23, 2013.

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