"Today's fathers and mothers--with only the American dream for guidance--extend and overextend themselves, physically, emotionally,and financially, during the best years of their lives to ensure that their children will grow up prepared to do better and go further than they did."

“I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

“The past is a sorry country.”

“I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules.”

Source : "I didn't know I was writing a novel". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2005.

“Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift...”

“My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“A coach can't be concerned with the poor ballplayer. If the player can't make it, he's got to be out right away. It's a very tough aspect of coaching, and in this aspect I was weak. Also, some guys get fat on coaching, they get healthy and strong, but other guys get ulcers.”

“I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.”

“I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.”