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- My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school,…
- Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real…
- All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in…
- A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often…
- They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's…
- Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
- What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after…
- How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain…
- The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that…
- There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and…
- Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
- There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden…
- People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the…
- If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come…
- He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never…
- Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other…
- That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
- I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty…
- My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women…
- But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide