"I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper to her sleeping if you for one time stood by something stronger than yourself."

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Source : Kaye Gibbons (1997). “Ellen Foster”, Turtleback Books

Kaye Gibbons

#Ocean Quotes #Humble Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.”
“Angelina Jolieâ€™s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe itâ€™s not that weird. After all, he could be the father.”
“Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?”

Source : Tate Hallaway (2006). “Tall, Dark & Dead”, p.174, Penguin
“We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.”
“The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!”
“To see the light we must first acknowledge that we are in the dark.”
“The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the mouth of somebody else that they don't know the weight or gravity or intensity that something they've made has brought out in somebody else's life. It's simultaneously flattering and humbling. It makes me so thankful that I've been so lucky to be able to do this work.”

Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power”

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