"The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love."

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Glennon Melton

#Meaningful Quotes #Choices Quotes #Advice Quotes

“Whatâ€™s happened is that, almost overnight, weâ€™ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this, no statute from Congress or the state legislatures. It was accomplished in a private corporate decision. The banks just did it.”
“There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.”
“Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.”
“It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?”
“Are there not hours of an immortal birth,â€” Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds?â€””
“I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.160, Macmillan
“Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.”
“Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

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