"No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons."

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Source : Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”

Janice Galloway

#Hurt Quotes #Eye Quotes #Dark Quotes

“No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation”
“The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.”
“the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.”

Source : Georgia Elma Harkness (1949). “The Gospel and Our World”
“When it's football season, I'm all football.”
“Never a failure,always a lesson”

Source : "Is Rihanna Switching Teams? Tweets Of ‘Date Night’ With Female ‘Lover’" by Radar Staff, radaronline.com. April 20, 2012.
“I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.”
“be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down”
“I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.”

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