"I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight."

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Source : Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.14, Ballantine Books

Paula McLain

#Mother Quotes #Rain Quotes #Eight Quotes

“But I don't want nutrition. I want food!”
“I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.”
“If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year. [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]”
“Sabi nila, 'When you know what you deserve, you don't look back.'”
“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.”

Source : "The New Edge in Sports Performance and Results" by Howard Falco, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.
“Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".”
“Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious.”
“DS not only changes Nintendo, it changes our industry.”

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