"A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do."

“Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.”

“One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.”

“I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.”

“Dhoni is the best captain India ever had”

“Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?”

Source : Anna Sewell (2014). “BLACK BEAUTY: Fiction, Novel, Children's literature”, p.27, editionNEXT.com

“How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)”

“We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also.”

“Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.”