"Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body."

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Source : Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.53, Algonquin Books

Tayari Jones

#Air Quotes #Skins Quotes #Body Quotes

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
“An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.”
“All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.”
“I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!”
“As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.”

Source : "Riders of the Purple Wage or The Great Gavage". Book by Philip Jose Farmer, 1967.
“We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.”
“I love fruit, when it is expensive.”

Source : Arthur Wing Pinero (2007). “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray”, p.77, Broadview Press
“I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.”

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