"By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do."

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Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.101, Random House

Darin Strauss

#Light Quotes #Skins Quotes #Watches Quotes

“The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.”
“How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!”
“Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home.”

Source : Michael Flynn (2006). “Eifelheim”, p.20, Macmillan
“I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.”

Source : "Aeschbacher". Talk-Show, Swiss Television SF1, April 4, 2008.
“Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.”
“â€¦and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake and a hug and a kiss and a drink. Cheers!”
“It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the human race.”

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