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#1. I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting. A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

Libba Bray

#2. Feelings can only be hidden so long from those who really pay attention.
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Jamie Ford

#3. If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise express, that offers a much more insightful analysis of why documentaries - even of the fly-on-the-wall variety - are powerful.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#4. A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

Sebastian Faulks

#5. She's still smiling her little smile, and it strikes me that, actually, she is drunk, not on alcohol, but on her St. Louis hopes and dreams. I wouldn't sober her up for anything, but she doesn't need me anymore. She can hang on to her dreams by herself now.

Tim Tharp

#6. I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Washington Irving

#7. One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#8. Sandstorm sighed. I was afraid you were going to say that.

Erin Hunter

#9. Sopping, and with no sign of stopping, either- then a breather. Warm again, storm again- what is the norm, again? It's fine, it's not, it's suddenly hot: Boom, crash, lightning flash!

Old Farmer's Almanac

#10. Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.

Deacon Jones

#11. Why? What had she ever done? What had any of them ever done? To give a child only to take him away. To make and then unmake, as if a family weren't built of lives but of things that could be broken, returned, thrown out

John Burnham Schwartz