"To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward."

-- Gregory Maguire

#Dark Quotes #Half Quotes #Lost Quotes

“All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was - my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self - disconnected from me in that second - snip, snip, snip - and floated up into space.”
“I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.”
“There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.”
“Bill Hicks is a huge influence. I love him.”
“I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.”
“If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.”

Source : "Marat Safin crashes out of Shanghai with swipe at Berdych and Roddick", www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2009.
“I don't talk down to kids. Usually someone my age who's talking to a ten or twelve year old is yelling at them.”
“Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly... Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!”

Source : Adelaide Crapsey, “Adventure”

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