"It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's right between us, always."

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Source : Caragh M. O'Brien (2011). “Prized”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

Caragh M. O'Brien

“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”

Source : "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing" by Larry Chang, (p. 412), 2006.
“I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.”
“Dogs are like their owners. If you get an uptight owner, you have an uptight dog. If you have an assertive owner, half drunk who thinks he owns the whole track, the dog will be the same. If you see that kind of person, he doesn't own a miniature Poodle.”
“I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.”
“If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.”
“Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.”
“Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.”
“People find a way through just about anything.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.144, Random House Books for Young Readers

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