"Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei"

-- Amy Tan

#Mother Quotes #Skins Quotes #Flesh Quotes

“I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...”
“At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.”
“There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.”
“Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.”
“So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, 'You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why'.”

Source : "‘Firefly’: Sean Maher wants Whedon to make ‘Serenity’ sequel". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 9, 2012.
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.”
“I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.”

Source : Interview with Bruce Labruce, www.indexmagazine.com. 2000.
“Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.”

Source : Kirby Page (1976). “Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology”, Dissertations-G

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