"Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob."

-- Suzanne Collins

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“My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.”

Source : "Vinnie Jones: My family life". Interview with Dina Behrman, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.
“Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.”

Source : "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. February 19, 2009.
“We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.
“It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.”
“By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.”
“Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.”

Source : "A Conversation With Choreographer Twyla Tharp". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. February 26, 2010.
“If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.”
“Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.”

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