"Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad."

-- Rosie Batty

#Pain Quotes #Dad Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”

Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars.”
“in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.”
“Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.”
“The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.”

Source : "Experimental Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 Mpg". www.foxnews.com. August 13, 2005.
“What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women â€” organized women â€” do is to fret about his shirt?”
“The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.”
“I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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