"Never wear a red t-shirt to Target. I enjoy helping people, but not every two minutes."

-- Kevin Nealon

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“Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.”

Source : "Transcript: Whitney Houston: 'I'm a Person Who Has Life'". "Primetime" with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. December 4, 2002.
“Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If Iâ€™m to trade my life for Roseâ€™s, Iâ€™d appreciate her exhibiting a touch of melancholy. Also acceptable would be despair.”
“One can do something if one can see and understand it...”
“My ultimate style icon is Grace Jones.”
“There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.”
“I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.”
“If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.”
“grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.55, Penguin

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