#if

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#arrived #computer #during #first #first time

The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#life #love #family

A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry. ↗

— Holly Black

#roiben #seelie-queen #tithe #life

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#becomes #beginner #ceases #given #going

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#difficult #exactly #get #long #prison

It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#thomas #life

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#destroying #even #even now #i #life

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#difficult #get #hear #me #nothing

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#any #completely #could #different #different perspectives

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. ↗

— Eminem

#everything #fantasy #goes #handed #having