"Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise."

-- Maya Angelou

#Night Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Terror Quotes

“The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.”

Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House
“The heart of marriage is memories.”
“Thereâ€™s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. Thereâ€™s no such thing as happily ever after.”
“your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”
“I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!”
“Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the water in the first place is the element of risk.”
“A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.”
“I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a radical who was willing to confront discrimination in ways that I thought it should be confronted, including perhaps the use of violence. But I really just wanted to be left alone. I thought some laws, like minimum-wage laws, helped poor people and poor black people and protected workers from exploitation. I thought they were a good thing until I was pressed by professors to look at the evidence.”

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