"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Light Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Changing Your Life Quotes

“The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.”
“This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.”
“Normal' is a dryer setting.”

Source : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.258, Ballantine Books
“I've fallen in love a hundred times in my life! But never like you. So I wonder if I really fell or just tripped, you know?”
“My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how I hurt her and how I said the wrong things and how I got angry and how I wasn't the man she hoped I'd be. I see that in her face and I see she's going to die with that. You think I'm not preoccupied?”
“I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.”
“Love is the whole and more than all.”
“I mean, who you choose to walk with through life will be the most important decision that you will ever, ever make. You will have your children and you will love them because they are yours and because they will be wonderful. Just like you. But who you marry is a choice. The man you choose should make you happy, encourage you in following your dreams, big ones and little ones.”

Source : Heather Gudenkauf (2016). “The Weight of Silence”, p.237, Harlequin

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