"We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!"

-- Maya Angelou

#Inspirational Quotes #Light Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“Until everyone in this country over 35 has passed away, the theocracy will still be alive. And I am not actually of the theocracy, and that could bother people. I think I've probably taken a bit of flak for that, as well as being an arsehole occasionally, obviously.”
“I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.”
“All things are photographable.”
“Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom and fatigue he generally found more there than a nameless and transient desire to acquire plastic trophies. He and Nubbins were not even in the same ball park.”
“The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
“And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!”

Source : David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.49, Hachette UK
“The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.”
“Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.”

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