"No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is."

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Source : Blake Nelson (2011). “Recovery Road”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

Blake Nelson

#Opportunity Quotes #Doors Quotes #Done Quotes

“I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true.”
“Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.”
“We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.”
“See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.”
“Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.”

Source : Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.114, Simon and Schuster
“I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form,”
“Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.”
“I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.”

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