"There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night."

-- Emma Donoghue

#Night Quotes #Years Quotes #Long Quotes

“Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.”
“A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.”
“First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.”
“Don't judge my brother; he is not a book.”
“There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.”

Source : Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.8, Penguin
“Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.”
“It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.”
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

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