I listen to gospel music.
I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.
I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.
I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat.
My boyfriend is not a swimmer!
I can just put my head down and train hard.
I feel like I'm more of the underdog, which is kind of nice.
We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.
I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.
I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.
I can't wait to tell him one day," she says with a giggle. "'Hey, Chaz, guess what? We knew where your precious car was all the time. ' I'd like to take a photo of his face. What do you think?" "I reckon I'd smile really nicely in the photo," Santangelo says behind me, yanking me out of the way, "knowing that you'll be keeping it under your pillow for the rest of your life.