"Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts."

-- Susan Meissner

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“When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there Â must be no silent witnesses.”
“One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.”
“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”
“Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.”
“It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2012). “The House I Loved”, p.149, Macmillan
“Recognize that whether you are worthy or not is all a made-up 'story'...Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it...There's no one who comes around and stamps you 'worthy' or 'unworthy'. You do that. You make it up. You decide it...If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.”
“As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.”
“I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.”

Source : "AGENT ORANGE: Sleepover Star Alexa Vega Talks About Her New Movie!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 9, 2004.

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