"I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it."

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Source : "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - review" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2012.

Rachel Joyce

#Pain Quotes #Fall Quotes #Differences Quotes

“My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.”
“My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”
“Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign â€” a kind of death-rattle â€” when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.169, Macmillan
“I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.”
“Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist. They can be analysed and partly understood according to the rules of a simpler discipline, but they also present another level of complexity: viruses are living chemicals, and primates are animals who love and hate and think.”
“It is more important to be a good person than a good player.”
“Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)”
“Infidelity, cheating is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do.”

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