"Drosophila,â€ I said, remembering the word. â€œWhat?â€ Lily asked. â€œWhy do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?â€ â€œWhat?â€ â€œFruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.â€ â€œBecause theyâ€™re hot?â€ â€œThis,â€ I told her, â€œis not the time for being truthful."

-- Rachel Cohn

#Girl Quotes #Fall Quotes #Guy Quotes

“Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.”
“I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...”

Source : "Being Black In America And Being African Aren't Mutually Exclusive". "All Things Considered" with Christabel Nsiah-Buadi, www.npr.org. February 11, 2017.
“The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much.”

Source : "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.
“You learn how to persevere... to have discipline, you learn to lose, you learn to win, you learn how to not quit.”
“Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.”
“Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.”
“We learn nothing by being right.”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
“Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 24, 2011

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