"I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening."

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Source : Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

Lauren DeStefano

#Thinking Quotes #Brave Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.”
“Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.”
“For me, challenging myself with this type of endeavor [ultramarathons] brings the best out in me because even at the darkest, deepest moments when I feel like I can't go on, when I feel like there's no chance I could break the record or much less finish the trail, somehow I find that strength inside of me.”
“I'll keep battling for that No. 1 spot.”
“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
“The children are designated as "Air Force aides of the Hitler youth" and wear military uniforms and become used to handling the anti-aircraft artillery flak guns. 15 and 16 year old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps the babies will be also employed. Total war!!”
“Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.”
“I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.”

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