"You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there."

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Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2011). “Okay for Now”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gary D. Schmidt

#Air Quotes #Smell Quotes #Cry Quotes

“Where you want to be is always in control, never wishing, always trading, and always first and foremost protecting your ass. That's why most people lose money as individual investors or traders because they're not focusing on losing money. They need to focus on the money that they have at risk and how much capital is at risk in any single investment they have. If everyone spent 90 percent of their time on that, not 90 percent of the time on pie-in-the-sky ideas on how much money they're going to make, then they will be incredibly successful investors.”
“The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.”
“We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.”
“I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.”
“Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tigerâ€™s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life â€“ of my grandfatherâ€™s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.”

Source : Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.15, Hachette UK
“I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.”
“Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet.... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.”
“A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.”

Source : "Zoe Saldana confirms she's having twins with cutest hint" by Marc Malkin, www.today.com. October 2, 2014.

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