"life unfolds itself in mysteries ways."

“Her scent blazed in my throat and I was glad. It was a pain that meant she was alive. As long as I burned, she was safe.”

“A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!”

“I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.”

“I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement.”

Source : "Tara Subkoff: 'I Survived a Brain Tumor'" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 17, 2010.

“Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.”

“Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration (which are much the same thing).”

Source : Philippe Sollers (1994). “Watteau in Venice: A Novel”, Scribner

“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.”

“Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.”