"Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine."

-- Elizabeth McCracken

#Waiting Quotes #Listening Quotes #Dying Quotes

“It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.”
“Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.”
“Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were.”
“I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.”
“During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted in their soul.”
“You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.”
“I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.”
“I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.”

Source : "Dem senator unsure of vote for Obama or Romney" by Donna Cassata, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 20, 2012.

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