"There exists a "fear of freedom" of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate."

“I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.”

“The chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were so large, and were moving so fast, that each hit Jupiter with at least the equivalent energy of the dinosaur-killing collision between Earth and an asteroid 65 million years ago. Whatever damage Jupiter sustained, one thing is for sure: it's got no dinosaurs left.”

“Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.”

“going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way”

“Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ...”

“I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat…I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big.”

“A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.”

Source : Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.