"Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. â€”Margaret"

-- Jacqueline Woodson

#Summer Quotes #Able Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“There can only be one answer to this hideous act of jihad against the staff of Charlie Hebdo. It is the obligation of the Western media and Western leaders, religious and lay, to protect the most basic rights of freedom of expression, whether in satire on any other form. The West must not appease, it must not be silenced. We must send a united message to the terrorists: Your violence cannot destroy our soul.”
“Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.”
“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”
“Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.”
“In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.”
“Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.261
“White wing'd angels meet the child On the vestibule of life.”
“Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.”

Source : Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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