"I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be."

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Source : Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.234, Vintage Canada

Lori Lansens

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“Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.”
“As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.”
“Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.”
“We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.”
“I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?”
“You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.”
“What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.”

Source : Gervase Markham, William Lawson (1668). “A Way to Get Wealth: Containing Six Principall Vocations, Or Callings, in which Every Good Husband Or House-wife May Lawfully Imploy Themselves ...”
“I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.”

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