“There’s no need for hyperbole.’ Oswald paused to see if Melvin understood this big word. Oswald was going to be famous, and fame, he knew, came with responsibilities, like setting a good example for others, being a role model.”
Source: Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum
“Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual. But those who do so inevitably discover that these struggles bring them into conflict with the normal life of average people and the traditional values and bourgeois conventions that they uphold. A personality is the product of a clash between two opposing forces: the urge to create a life of one's own and the insistence by the world around us that we conform. Nobody can develop a personality unless he undergoes revolutionary experiences. The extent of those experiences differs, of course, from person to person, as does the capacity to lead a life that is truly personal and unique.”
Source: Soul of the Age: Selected Letters, 1891-1962
“Growth is betrayal.”
Source: Rabbit Redux
“I had told my story. I had put it into words, at last... Telling the story changed the story for me. Not what had happened--that I could never change--but how I responded to it.”
Source: Things You Save in a Fire
“When you’re growing up, it takes a long time for you to realize that there’s something different about you. On one level, you know there’s something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing you ever knew.”
Source: The Circus of the Earth and the Air
“It has been said the road of brokenness left unchecked can rob you of your life’s blessing.”
Source: Mixed Bloodline: The story of a young biracial boy overcoming racism growing up in the South doing the 1930's Jim Crow Era
“Our consiousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us anymore than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.”
Source: Silas Marner
“Pembaharuan hadir dalam setiap detik. Perbaikan terjadi setiap saat.”
“Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.”
Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“She learned that keeping up and working hard paid dividends inside the Pietà, unavailable to women outside it.”
Source: Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta