"I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live."

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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“Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside; It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands and waterswide.”

Source : William Allingham (1865). “Fifty Modern Poems”, p.118
“Pain or damage don't end the world...”

Source : "Fictional character: Al Swearengen". "Deadwood" TV series, Season 2, Episode 7: "E.B. Was Left Out", www.imdb.com. April 17, 2005.
“This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.”
“Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.”
“Manchester's got everything except a beach.”

Source : "Manchester's missing tech scene? Here comes the resurrection ..." by Rob Coupland, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2013.
“I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read.”
“I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.”
“When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies. To hear the Blackbird, Cuckoo, Thrush, Or any bird in song; And common leaves that hum all day Without a throat or tongue. And when Time strikes the hour for sleep, Back in my room alone, My heart has many a sweet bird's song - And one that's all my own.”

Source : William Henry Davies, “When On A Summer's Morn”

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