"It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?"

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Source : Jane Green (2000). “Bookends”, p.185, Penguin UK

Jane Green

#Pain Quotes #Joy Quotes #Someone You Love Quotes

“I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.”

Source : "Women Reporters Face Added Risks In Conflict Zones". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 22, 2011.
“Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.”
“The reason that I'm here is that Patrick and I are partners and when crazy stuff comes our way we'll sit down and brainstorm and think around it just like we do when we're thinking about a scene. So, while the masters might not understand my being here, or at least they didn't at first, but they do now because we really are a partnership. If he's on set I'm on set.”
“Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.”
“Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.”
“Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.”
“Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1632, Delphi Classics
“I don't tie my shoes right. I tie them the way you would tie a gift, like a bow.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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