"I want my gay life to not wind up on the streets-on Second Avenue. But at the same time, I don't care if it does."

“The key to success is to be true to who you really are.”

Source : Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.180, Crown Business

“If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.”

“At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to buy me food!" Blue said. "If you pay for it, then it's like I'm... be---be---" "Beholden to me?" Gansey suggested pleasantly. "Don't put words into my mouth." "It was your word." "You assumed it was my word. You can't just go around assuming." "But that is what you meant, isn't it?" She scowled. "I'm done with this conversation.”

“We’re all women. We all have the same wonderful situations happen to us, the same horrific situations. We all get our hearts broken.”

“Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.”

Source : Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.67, Random House

“There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.”

Source : "Aznar: Europe north-south split emerging". Interview with Al Goodman, www.cnn.com. May 22, 2010.

“In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.”

Source : Robin Wasserman (2011). “Shattered”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

“Why do you tell me... so much?" Luthe considered her. "I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know--" He stopped.... "Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.”