"Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters."

-- Caroline Leavitt

#Character Quotes #People Quotes #Details Quotes

“No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost.”
“In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is, goes widely unappreciated by the masses. 'Port Blue' is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel." "If by chance you ever feel as though youâ€™ve come to know these songs, please consider yourself a friend because in a manner of speaking, you know me. This music is my heart and soul. This is whoï»¿ I am." (Adam R. Young, 2006)”
“I intentionally leave adults out in my stories, not to say that they're not in charge or that they don't care, or that they're failing at what they do. Not at all. It's two things: It's a way to be true to what adolescence feels like, because, okay, your parents may be around, but you still don't want them to be around. What you go through, you go through alone, I think.”
“Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.”
“Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.”
“God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.”

Source : Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”
“I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.”
“She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is... seventy-three!”

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