Jean Kwok famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.
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Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.
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When I’m with you, I could drink water and be full.
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I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.
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I never want to love someone like that, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn't be able to survive if he left me.
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No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.
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When I’m with you, I could drink water and be full.
-- Jean Kwok
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
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Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.
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Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
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You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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