"I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow."

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Source : Fynn (2013). “Mister God, This is Anna”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

#Grief Quotes #Blow Quotes #Mind Quotes

“It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'”

Source : "Q&A: Cheryl Hines on Suburgatory and Being 'Cheryl'". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2012.
“There are silences harder to take back than words.”
“When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.”
“The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.”

Source : Song: The Confessor
“The possibility of reduced-time interstellar travel either by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations at present or ourselves in the future, is not fundamentally constrained by physical principles.”
“I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change....or die.”
“In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.”
“Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.”

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