Marian Christina’s Profile

“When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

“A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper