"I wished sheâ€™d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me."

-- Gail Carson Levine

#Children Quotes #Embrace Quotes #Squeezing Quotes

“Now I am a genius; before that I was a drudge.”
“My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.”
“My dream is to be Endora in Bewitched. That's the part I want to do. I want to do a fabulous old woman. I want to be Maggie Smith someday. Not exactly like her, but that genre. I like that kind of humor - sophisticated, vain stuff.”

Source : "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.
“You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you”
“POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret”
“All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.”
“Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.”

Source : Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.172, A&C Black
“There's nothing more important than a good story.”

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