"When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear"

“Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.”

“We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.”

“Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1997). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.106, Wordsworth Editions

“There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.”

Source : "Studies in the South and West with Comments on Canada". Book by Charles Dudley Warner, 1889.

“I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.”

Source : "'Mysterious Benedict': Solve A Puzzle, Save The World". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. March 26, 2012.

“It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.”

Source : David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.37, Courier Corporation

“Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.”

“Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.”

Source : William Godwin (1796). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.261