"September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time."

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Catherynne M. Valente

#Children Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Betrayed Quotes

“Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.”

Source : Karel Capek's supplement to his book "R.U.R" in "The Saturday Review", 1923.
“You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.”

Source : Aristophanes (2015). “The wasps - The birds - The frogs - The Thesmophoriazusae - The Ecclesiazusae”, p.276, Aristophanes
“Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.”
“Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.”
“My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.”
“Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation.”
“Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.”
“But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.”

Source : "Horrible histories". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2005.

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