"Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are"

-- Anais Nin

“I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.281, Penguin
“If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.”

Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.
“The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.”
“I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.”
“History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.”
“She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.”
“The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,”

Source : WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”
“How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1688, Delphi Classics

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