"The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top."

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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.160, Thomas Nelson Inc

Abby Sunderland

#Trying Quotes #Soda Quotes #Panic Quotes

“I think I've had to work my entire life at reacting to bad news, 'cause my first tendency whenever bad news comes is to pretend like it's not that bad somehow. And, you know, if you can do that with your parents being executed, you can do that with almost anything.”
“Most of today's music is done electronically.”
“The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.”
“I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.”

Source : "Mo Yan and Joseph Anton" by Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. October 12, 2012.
“There’s a certain relationship which we have to have with our inner functioning. That of respect and that of wonder. When we are quiet enough and positive enough that we can follow these fine indications inside which lead us to more functioning, we will find out what precious abilities we have which we usually don’t use.”
“It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.”
“I have little sister Lola, she is small and very funny.”

Source : Lauren Child, Bridget Hurst, Carol Noble (2006). “My School Play Sticker Book”, Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
“I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.”

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