"...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who had danced here across centuries of spring evenings, gallant girls seeing gallant boys off to war, old men and women straight-backed while outside their world disintegrated and the new one battered at their doors, all of them bruised and all of them laughing, welcoming us into their long lineage."

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Tana French

#Girl Quotes #Spring Quotes #War Quotes

“At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.”

Source : Gibbs (Sir Philip Hamilton.), Philip Gibbs (1933). “Ways of Escape”
“By judging differently and by recognizing their female experiences and bringing them to bear on the Supreme Court's decision, Ginsburg and O'Connor both made it legitimate for people to be different.”
“Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.”
“Every movie I’ve made is different, but it’s because I’m different. I’m not the same person I was in 1992 or 1999.”

Source : "Gregg Araki: apocalypse now and again". Interview with Patrik Sandberg, www.dazeddigital.com. March 6, 2015.
“Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.”
“All the things you treasure most will be the hardest won I will watch you struggle long before the answers come But I won't make it harder, I'll be there to cheer you on I'll shine the light that guides you down the road you're walking on”

Source : Song: The One Who Knows, Album: The Beauty of the Rain
“At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother.”
“I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.”

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