"You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved."

-- Stewart O'Nan

#Love Quotes #Life Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.”
“Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.”
“One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.”
“When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.”
“She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.”
“Liza-don't let it make any difference. It won't, will it? With us, I mean." "Of course it won't," I told her. But I was wrong. Six months of not writing-that's a difference. And so I lied to Annie. On top of everything else, I lied to Annie, too.”

Source : Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.111, Open Road Media
“Elvis was the firstest with the mostest.”
“You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust at what they fancy is said within, or hide their faces in one which they pretend to peruse while somebody else lectures them on matters they'd rather not confront. But they do not read them. 'Twould be recursive, rendering each book effectively infinite, so that no single one might be finished without reading them all. This is the infallible message of discovering on which side of the page you are on.”

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