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Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside. Audre Lorde
Alice Hoffman quote: "Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly..."
Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done. Alice Hoffman
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in..."
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Christopher Morley quote: "but if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and..."
...but if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on. Christopher Morley
Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said. Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?"No, I'm just opportunistic."I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great. Charlaine Harris
Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life... J. K. Rowling
William James quote: "Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our..."
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. William James
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level Brian Greene
Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Thornton Wilder
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me,..."
Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated Laurell K. Hamilton
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been. Clive Barker
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot... Elizabeth Wurtzel
she makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed... the widder [widow] eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she wakes up by a bell-everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it Mark Twain
James Patterson quote: "When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the..."
When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished. James Patterson
And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself out a bit... And you get carried away, you suffer so much from the things that exist that you ask for what can't ever exist. Now look at me, I was well away dreaming like a fool and seeing visions of a nice friendly life on good terms with everybody, and off I went, up into the clouds. And when you fall back into the mud it hurts a lot. No! None of it was true, none of those... Emile Zola

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