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“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”

Source: Every Last One

“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.”

Source: Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

“Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.”

Anna Quindlen, in Loud and Clear http://books.google.co.in/books?id=lHQQeWXNgpIC, p. 307