"She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a lie and a torment." "Do you love me?" she repeated, quite calmly. Knowing the answer. "Yes, may it curse my soul." "May it save your soul," she said."

-- Anne Stuart

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“I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.”
“Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.”

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.14, Grove Press
“We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.”
“It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.”
“When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous tongue. I will shake hands with other men, grasping firmly with my opposable thumbs. And I will teach all people that I know. And when I see a man or a woman or a child in trouble, I will extend my hand, both metaphorically and physically. I will offer my hand. To him. To her. To you. To the world. I will be a good citizen, a good partner in the endeaver of life that we all share.”
“My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.”
“I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.”
“Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.”

Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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