"Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds."

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Source : Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Riding Shotgun”, p.151, Bantam

Rita Mae Brown

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“The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.”
“For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.”
“For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”
“I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.”
“Without hope we are lost.”
“I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.”
“Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.”
“People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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