"A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound."

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Source : Elissa Schappell (2012). “Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

Elissa Schappell

#Girl Quotes #Mom Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.”
“America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.”
“Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.”

Source : 1991 A Devious Dictionary.
“He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.”
“He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.”

Source : Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”
“I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.”
“I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.”
“I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?”

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