Questura Firenze Quotes

#1. If we don't risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.

John Bevere

#2. People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

Martina Navratilova

#3. It's hardly wisdom, but the older I get the more I believe that our lives are built not out of time, but light. The problem is that the images that so often return to me are seldom those I want.

Colum McCann

#4. If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language' ... you're not putting the person first.

Stuart Duncan

#5. Win or lose, good or bad, the experience will change you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. There is an irony in how Christians talk about and understand sexuality. Christians often lament the world's reductionism of sex to genital interaction and raw physical pleasures, but then they typically reduce a gay person's sexuality to just that.

Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

#7. My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!

Eudora Welty

#8. I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

Adele

#9. I didn't want to write travelogues.

Deborah Eisenberg

#10. I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough.

Michael Dorris