"Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding."

-- Gabrielle Zevin

#Winning Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Black Quotes

“Karate begins and ends with courtesy.”
“Where there is power, there is resistance.”

Source : Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.382, MIT Press
“You got a problem?" "Aside from the fact that we are about to die? No. But I want to say thank you before it is too late.”

Source : Diana Pharaoh Francis (2009). “Bitter Night: A Horngate Witches Book”, p.327, Simon and Schuster
“With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.”
“She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.”

Source : "Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel". Book by Jeffery Deaver, 2009.
“You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.”
“It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure ...”
“Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.”

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