"Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another."

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Source : Jesse Ball (2007). “Samedi the Deafness: A Novel”, Vintage

Jesse Ball

#Sunday Quotes #Self Quotes #Reason Quotes

“There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.”
“Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Donâ€™t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.”
“We deserve each other, Luis â€¦ and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.â€ He steps closer, but hesitates. â€œIf I do, mi chava, I canâ€™t promise Iâ€™ll be able to let you go.”
“If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.”
“Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema, or online, is because we haven't found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we're here. But I've learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.”
“Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.”
“In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.”
“If you raise children, you forget what age they are. I mean you don't literally forget, but you treat a 13-year-old like she's 10 and there's a big difference in those three years and they can't stand it. They want to be treated like they're 17 when they're 13. And sometimes you can't help thinking of them as if they were 10 or 10 months old because it's all so recent. So we do overprotect sometimes.”

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