"Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems."

-- Vivian Vande Velde

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“One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.”
“I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.”

Source : Brenda Shaughnessy (2012). “Our Andromeda”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press
“The geometry reveals five development direction for applications (each with endless possibilities); dividing, dwelling, trestle, fenestration and artistic installation. I find these enabled designs so reflective of an ever-changing world where contextual factors and technological resources are shifting definitions of architecture, design, and the traditional boundaries between disciplines.”

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“Women feel safe with me as well they should, because not only am I morally objected at going too far, but physically I cannot do it.”
“A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing before I made my first movie. I just happened to do it as an actor all the while I've been doing music, but never with the intention to become a screaming famous pop star.”
“Over time, you'll find that the more you trust your intuition and allow it to set your direction, the more you build that trust. Develop a habit of continually checking in with your intuition by asking yourself: Does this feel right to me?”
“Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.”
“My daughter's all grown up now compared to what she was, but I used to say, Iâ€™ve got to have my horse to where if sheâ€™s leading my horse somewhere, and sheâ€™s got a big armload of Barbies and drops something out of her hand, that son of a buck ought to stop and respect her while sheâ€™s gathering up all her dolls and not to walk on her or take advantage of her. And if Iâ€™ve done my work right, by gosh, thatâ€™s what theyâ€™ll do.”

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