"Have you ever been to a place you're supposed to love, but all you can think about is home?"

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Source : Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.165, Egmont UK

Cynthia Hand

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When Russell was out, you stepped your game up for me, for the team. There were nights where you made me look way better than I am. You clean up so many of our mistakes, man, and we appreciate that. From everybody on the team, we appreciate that, man, and I thank you so much for giving me confidence when I didn't have it, for always being there when I wanted to talk to you, when I wanted to call, for arguing with me all the time, making me better, and realizing I'm not always right. Thank you, man. I appreciate you.”
“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
“The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.”
“You always see the world, the way you are, not the way world is.”
“There were times in life when you had to take a risk that might end in failure. Because otherwise you would be haunted by what you hadnâ€™t done... the paths you hadnâ€™t taken, the things you hadnâ€™t experienced.”
“Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.”

Source : Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca.”
“Ideas shape the course of history.”

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