"I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book."

-- Cassandra Clare

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“A number of individuals tried to make my homosexuality a topic of debate. I admittedly found that rather upsetting.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.”
“Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.”
“I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.”

Source : "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.
“Has feminism increased the pool of happy women?”
“One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. Physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.”
“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.”
“If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are a lot of negative people who were enormously determined. All the Nazis were determined. They wanted to murder everyone. Everyone with a bad heart, who doesn't care about people, I wish they hadn't started.”

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