"When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on."

-- James Howe

#Thinking Quotes #Twelve Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Today you may not understand me and tomorrow you all think as you thought as yesterday; but I believe in my mind that one day you all will understand me; though there is no my presence.”
“Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.”
“Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up”

Source : John Howard Griffin (2006). “Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition”, p.127, Wings Press
“For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.”
“I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
“Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing.”
“It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.”
“Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.”

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