"I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same."

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Source : Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

Tabitha Suzuma

#Mean Quotes #Laughing Quotes #The End Of The Day Quotes

“It's hard to stay committed when our heart isn't in it.”
“The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.”
“There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.”
“The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.”
“For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.”
“Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.”

Source : "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.
“I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“Failure is not the falling down but the staying down.”

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