"I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?"

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Margaret Stohl

#World Quotes #Mark Quotes #Considering Quotes

“To love is to lose control.”
“Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved”
“All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.”
“The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.”
“At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”
“Know the one who wants nothing to be the wealthiest.”
“The coward's weapon, poison.”
“It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.”

Source : "Manifold Destiny". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.

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