"Sometimes, when I couldnâ€™t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves."

-- Steve Stern

#Light Quotes #Stories Quotes #Pay Quotes

“I was very sexual from a very young age.”
“When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.”
“Love fundamentally is the most powerful ecstasy of consciousness, and even if a person goes blind, there is no question when you are in love.”
“Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity?”

Source : "When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories". Book by Bernestine Singley, harvardmagazine.com. 2002.
“Many people have a very hard time truly believing that doing the right thing by others, striving to serve them to the greatest extent, can actually be a competitive advantage.”
“The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.”
“What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.138, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The memory of man is as old as misfortune”

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