"I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world."

-- Anne Tyler

#Survival Quotes #Promise Quotes #Endurance Quotes

“She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.”
“There have been a lot of horror anthologies as of late; movies like V/H/S and The ABCs of Death have brought the anthology back in style. We sort of felt like, "Why don't we do one and do our own thing?"”
“Mary McCarthy and that Mr. Intellectual kind of guy ... Dwight McDonald? And they were really mean about [Jerome David] Salinger, and oh they were going to destroy him, and just look how thoroughly they destroyed him! No one reads Salinger anymore!”
“This is a bond nothing can ever loosen. What I have lost: what I possess forever.”
“Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.”
“Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar that through which we are now passing. He became God - an exalted being - through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity today to obey.”
“Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!”
“Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails...”

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