"...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away."

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Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.247, Penguin

Kim Edwards

#Lonely Quotes #Giving Quotes #Renewal Quotes

“Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.”
“I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed,”
“Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.”
“The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman canâ€™t think for herself”

Source : David Henry Hwang (1989). “M. Butterfly”, Plume
“Live tonight, cuz you can't take it with ya.”
“I want people to read them and enjoy the experience and feel entertained. A lot of the best stories revolve around strange people, people whose decisions and logic and circumstances are not easily understood.”

Source : Source: www.bookbrowse.com
“Dream, rather than let yourself be dreamt”

Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.123, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.”

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