"A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England."
Rudyard Kipling
"I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there."
Beverly Cleary
"She was different. She liked hearing it, because she wanted to recall just enough of it to remember that she never wanted to go back to being the person she'd been before."
Harriet Evans
"I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women."
Ben Fountain
"Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?"
Anonymous
"No matter how small you are or feel or think you are–live big. Yours is the only life of you, in this form, the world will ever have!"
Na'ama Yehuda
"You really need stitches,' she tells me.'Or you're going to have a scar.' I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. 'I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside."
Jessica Sorensen
"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."
John Barrymore
"I can’t take back the past, Nadya. Not even we Unicorns can do that. But I’ll be damned if someone else is going to control our future. I’ve been away for too long, and I will always regret not being there for the Rourakin. But I have returned, and I am not leaving again."
Simon Skiles
"Earlier you feel being ordinary, chances are that you grow up into someone special; a late realisation though is heart-wrenching."
Sandeep Sahajpal
"It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'."
Theodore Bikel
"I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats."
Emma Brockes
"To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what's is so painful you can't sense your powers leaving you. It's hard for an old man to ensure such blows!"
Ivan Turgenev
"Just give me more, better memories to replace the bad ones. I’ll be back to normal before we know it."
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