"You canâ€™t kill history. You canâ€™t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than thatâ€”if itâ€™s going to die, it has to die on its own"

-- Leif Enger

#Memories Quotes #Lying Quotes #Watches Quotes

“I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.”

Source : "Legends: James Franco" by Michelle Lhooq and Madeline Rudin, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2012.
“There's no certainty to the next couple of years, but people are paying attention now. And I want to put out a record when people are paying attention, because that's when it has the best chance of being heard.”
“What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing. Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.”
“Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.”
“You big crybaby," I whispered into his ear. "Now you know why your mom warned you not to hit girls. Sometimes they hit back.”

Source : Kirsten Miller (2006). “Inside the Shadow City”
“When you realize youre alive, you can live life!”
“I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.”
“If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.”

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