"Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness."

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Source : Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing

Natalia Ginzburg

#Justice Quotes #Silence Quotes #Illness Quotes

“Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.”
“And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.13
“Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.”
“It kind of sounds like the noise a goat would make if you punched it in the face.”
“Everything happens through relationships.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy.”
“Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunaticâ€¦The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.”

Source : Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.”

Source : Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.436, Ballantine Books

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