"Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession."

-- Lisa Kleypas

#Letting Go Quotes #Taken Quotes #Possession Quotes

“Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.”
“Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.”
“Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.”
“Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.”
“I’ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up.”
“Besides, the normal people here wouldnâ€™t see it. That was what â€œdifferentâ€ meant. Itâ€™s just another word for lonely.”
“More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”
“Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally. Come to think of it, many still do in twenty-first-century society.”

Source : Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.101, Columbia University Press

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