"We all live downstream"

“Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.”

“All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.”

Source : John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.80, Bantam

“The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.”

“There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.”

“During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.”

Source : "Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate". Interview with Jim Hogue, baltimorechronicle.com. May 7, 2004.

“Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.”

Source : Brenda Jackson (2011). “Temptation & Spontaneous: Temptation\Spontaneous”, p.305, Harlequin

“I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the people I love. For me, it's never been about going out to meet guys or to show off my latest dress - it's the music.”

“It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.”

Source : Selma James (1983). “The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys”, Falling Wall Pr