"She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say."

-- Kami Garcia

#Heart Quotes #Trying Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control. The human race is its own rain and its own sun. It creates its own cyclones and anti-cyclones. The ridges of high pressure which we sometimes enjoy, the troughs of low pressure which we so often endure, are of our own making and nobody else's.”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from being at ease and it really stifles the social and economic growth of a family. Women are hit hard across the board, but particularly in homes where the mother is the head of the household and the only wage-earner. It hurts her, and it hurts her children.”
“In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.”

Source : Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.108, Ballantine Books
“I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.”
“There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.”
“A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.”
“They should tell you when youâ€™re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”
“We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.”

Source : John Lanchester (2000). “Mr. Phillips”, Putnam Adult

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