"I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it."

“Hillary Clinton'll be Madam President and we'll be in the White House.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

“He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.”

“One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

“The typical response from people when I tell them Im diabetic is, Oh, Im sorry to hear that. You know, Im not. Im a better athlete because of diabetes rather than despite it. Im more aware of my training, my fitness and more aware of nutrition. Im more proactive about my health.”

“Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.”

Source : William Strunk Jr. (2015). “Elements of Style”, p.20, Lulu.com

“Nothing is more revealing than movement.”

“I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 21, 2015

“Dear Brigan, she thought to herself. People want incongruous, impossible things. Horses do, too.”