"This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it."

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Source : Helen Humphreys (2003). “The Lost Garden: A Novel”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

Helen Humphreys

#Goodbye Quotes #Choices Quotes #Momentum Quotes

“And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.”
“A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.”
“After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.”
“There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.”
“Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, â€” that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.”
“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”
“My mom says I'm her sugarplum. My mom says I'm her lamb. My mom says I'm completely perfect Just the way I am. My mom says I'm a super-special wonderful terrific little guy. My mom just had another baby. Why?”

Source : Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.94, Simon and Schuster
“The mathematical tilt remains basic to my epistemological perspective, my howling plea in the still of night for epistemic humility. Mathematics gave me that as, also, did the difficulty I had in talking to my parents. How proofs are conceived is unfathomable. Clearly, there are certain conditions in which the revelation takes place.”

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