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“I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.”
― Armistead Maupin, 28 Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus

“The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood A mother bears a beautiful daughter who is cursed by an old fairy: the daughter will grow up, prick her hand on a spindle, and die. A young fairy modifies the curse: Beauty will not die, but only sleep until a prince kisses her. They marry, but the prince’s mother, an ogre, tries to kill Sleeping Beauty and her children; the ogress fails and the prince kills his mother.”
― Jeri Studebaker, Breaking the Mother Goose Code: How a Fairy-Tale Character Fooled the World for 300 Years

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“There are idiots in every crowd.”
― Heather Graham, Deadly Night

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts