"Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except, I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all."

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Source : Barbara Park (2010). “Junie B. Jones #4: Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying”, p.8, Random House Books for Young Readers

Barbara Park

“Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.”
“There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.”
“When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.”
“Big ideas start as weird ideas.”

Source : "Peter Thiel, PayPal Founder, Funds 'Seasteading,' Libertarian Sea Colony" by Cooper Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.
“Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.”
“Moving stranger, Does it really matter, As long as you're not afraid to feel? Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me.”
“I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.”

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