"My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Girl Quotes #Distance Quotes #Boys Quotes

“It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.”
“She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.”

Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.48
“Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.”
“I think everyone around the world knows the tools are there in England's armoury to do well in a World Cup. The challenge is to go out there and prove it.”
“Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.”
“Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.”
“I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.”
“In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the pastâ€”sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.”

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