"Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel."

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Source : Maureen Daly (2009). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

Maureen Daly

#Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I'm a proud person who happens to be deaf. I don't want to change it. I don't want to wake up and suddenly say, 'Oh my God, I can hear.' That's not my dream. It's not my dream. I've been raised deaf. I'm used to the way I am. I don't want to change it. Why would I ever want to change? Because I'm used to this, I'm happy.”
“A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does.”
“The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.”
“I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now.”
“Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.”
“God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.”
“The truth is I always loved him. From the first time I saw him he was so great. But that time I was hurt. I might have been selfish but I was so hurt. I was afraid I would feel more pain. Now I remember every time I was with Shouji I felt better. You hugged me secretly with your heart, didn't you? Now I want you to embrace me with all that warmth, with all your strength.”
“Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.”

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