"And you couldnâ€™t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieveâ€™s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Maconâ€™s problem with Lila, Linkâ€™s with Ridley. Probably even Ridleyâ€™s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place."

-- Kami Garcia

#Uncles Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Links Quotes

“Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.”
“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch herâ€”doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”
“I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.”

Source : Song: I Ain't As Good As I Once Was, Album: Honkytonk University, 2005
“You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.”
“Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin.”
“Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if theyâ€™re not being truthful, more often than not itâ€™s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesnâ€™t mean they donâ€™t love you.”
“Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.”

Source : James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.287, Rutgers University Press

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