"I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost."

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Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.195, Delacorte Press

E. Lockhart

#Mother Quotes #Heart Quotes #Hair Quotes

“Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.”

Source : Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.93, 1st World Publishing
“I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.”
“You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.”
“...but Iâ€™m trying to be inconspicuous.â€ Cinder considered telling him it wasn't working but thought better of it. The lack of a throng of screaming girls surrounding her booth was probably evidence that it was working better than she suspected. Instead of looking like a royal heartthrob, he just looked crazy.”
“I have two little kids and I enjoy watching movies with them, and I can't watch every movie with them. Sometimes it's because it's obviously not appropriate to watch The Bourne Identity with your kids, but a lot of times it's because it's torture to watch the movies that they want to watch, as a parent.”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
“Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth”
“Show love, tolerance and respect to everyone.”

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