"If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified."

“You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.”

“I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.”

“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”

“The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.”

“But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.”

“As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.”

“Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with it, we can rise above it and stay strong and true to ourselves.”

“Being lost is the way, how else can you be found?”

Source : Elizabeth Cunningham (2013). “Bright Dark Madonna: A Novel”, p.257, Monkfish Book Publishing