"And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice."

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Source : Jojo Moyes (2012). “The Girl You Left Behind”, p.110, Penguin UK

Jojo Moyes

#Simple Quotes #Choices Quotes

“In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.”
“When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.”
“There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.”
“Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.”
“A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.”

Source : Mary Johnson (2011). “An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir”, p.478, Spiegel & Grau
“Our heart's desire should be to worship God; we have been designed by God for this purpose. If we don't worship God, we'll worship something or someone else.”
“Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.”
“If you are rigorous in your own R&D in whatever your area is, you do your own testing, and you really stress-test the thing that you do, I think that gives you a tremendous amount of inner fortitude when you come up against the monolith.”

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