"It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside."

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Source : Pamela Ribon (2003). “Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

Pamela Ribon

#Death Quotes #Daddy Quotes #Persons Quotes

“We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in the individual, his rights, and his enterprise, and rejecting the socialist panacea.”
“Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.”
“What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.”
“Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. Love means recognizing yourself as the open fullness of this moment regardless of its contents -- trenchant thoughts, enchanting pleasures, heavy emotions, or gnawing pains -- and surrendering all hold on the familiar act you call 'me'.”
“Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.”

Source : Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.67, Penguin
“Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.”
“There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.”
“I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.”

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