"Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?"

“Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.”

“I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.”

Source : Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.195, A&C Black

“I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in.”

Source : "Ashley Graham’s Ted Talk Is A Lesson In Body Acceptance" by Jamie Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2015.

“My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.”

“Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.”

“I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.”

“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”

“Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.”

Source : Gail Tsukiyama (2007). “The Street of a Thousand Blossoms”, p.178, Macmillan