"Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that had been on my mind since then. "Tata, what is happy?" He looked at me and at the ceiling and back to me. "Did you ever taste an orange?" he said."

-- Jerry Spinelli

#Orange Quotes #Mind Quotes #Taste Quotes

“I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.”
“The spine as a whole operates as a functional unit. Each vertabra can affect its neighbor and one portion of the spine may affect or damage other areas of the body.”
“One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.”
“Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.”
“It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.”
“I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.”
“I always prefer photographing in available light â€“ or Rembrandt-light I like to call it â€“ so you get the natural modulations of the face. It makes a more alive, real, and flattering portrait.”
“Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?”

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