"This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you."

-- Franny Billingsley

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“I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.”
“Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.”
“When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out...”
“Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.”

Source : "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.
“Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.”
“As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.”
“The Justice of today is born of yesterday's pity.”

Source : Julia Lathrop (1974). “The United States Children's Bureau, 1912-1972”, Ayer Co Pub
“I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.”

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