"Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully."

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”

“A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.”

“Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.”

“SHINee is like the weather. Everyone has their own personalities and it's something that is essential to Earth.”

“I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.”

“I am a true 80s girl. I loved Kylie, Madonna, The Bangles and Human League. I fancied a couple of the Neighbours kids too and I loved Bros. God, I had terrible music taste. I’m getting a taste of my own medicine now, as my daughter’s been asking for some quite scary albums.”

Source : "Donna Air: ‘Since my split, I've proved I'm a good single mum'". The Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. August 15, 2008.

“The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing”

“Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2013). “Heaven Is Paved with Oreos”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt