"You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books."

-- Joanna Trollope

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“And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.”

Source : "Joely Richardson wants to adopt but not like Madonna". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.
“Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.”
“But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.”

Source : William H. McRaven's Commencement Address at the University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.
“The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.”
“Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to mourn. In Men We Reaped, Jesmyn unburies her dead, that they may live again. And through this emotional excavation, she forces us to see the problems of place and race that led these men to their early graves. Full of beauty, love, and dignity, Men We Reaped is a haunting and essential read.”
“Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident. The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers.”
“What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.”
“I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.”

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