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  • #1
    Angela Carter
    “Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
    Angela Carter

  • #2
    Henry Van Dyke
    “Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
    And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
    And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
    But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.”
    Henry Van Dyke

  • #3
    Roman Payne
    “People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.”
    Roman Payne, Crepuscule

  • #4
    Barbara Brown Taylor
    “I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.”
    Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark

  • #5
    Therese May
    “You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in darkness when the sun is gone and nothing is going well.”
    Therese May

  • #6
    J.A. Belfield
    “Conversation between Jem and Ethan on Sean:
    '"... Has it never occurred to you that maybe your brother brings out the worst in people?"
    "Or the best," he said, "depending on which way you look at it."
    "You're as bad as he is."
    "Actually, I'm much worse.”
    J.A. Belfield, Darkness & Light

  • #7
    C. JoyBell C.
    “The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need the darkness to be seen, the darkness will just not be worth having without the moon and the stars.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #9
    Jess C. Scott
    “I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
    Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey

  • #10
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #11
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #12
    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #13
    Susan Cain
    “Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  • #14
    Susan Cain
    “Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas can be shared quietly, they can be communicated in writing, they can be packaged into highly produced lectures, they can be advanced by allies. The trick for introverts is to honor their own styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking



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