"As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted."

-- John D'Agata

#School Quotes #Grad Quotes #Figures Quotes

“It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.”
“Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.”
“The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.”

Source : Elizabeth Knox (2014). “The Vintner's Luck”, p.187, Victoria University Press
“First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.”
“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”
“Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.”
“And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.”
“Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.”

Source : Cammie McGovern (2010). “Neighborhood Watch: A Novel”, p.9, Penguin

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