"The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song."

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Source : Sarah McCoy (2012). “The Baker's Daughter: A Novel”, p.123, Broadway Books

Sarah McCoy

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“I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.”

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“I had great difficulties learning to play initially because I could not think rhythmically properly, although it's an even-paced rhythm, I was not phrasing properly, I was too Western. It took me a while to learn to think in needed form, and the only way I could learn was just by ear.”

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“When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.”
“When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.”
“Having children, you have so much more structure in your life. The open-endedness of being a single woman is gone, you know? It's sort of like, from 1 P.M. to 3 P.M. the kids are going to take a nap, so now I have time to sit down and write the lyrics, or once they're put to bed, I have a few hours to focus on those things. I need that. It's a very strange process, really - I can never predict what's going to happen. It always feels uncomfortable and awkward.”

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“I can look at myself in the mirror, and I can be proud.”
“If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another”
“I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly.”

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