"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow."

-- Rene Descartes

#Joy Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Genuine Quotes

“Do the truth quietly without display.”
“The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.”
“Its not about being included. It about creating your own space and including yourself and then finding other people that are like okay.”
“It's not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.”
“You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't dare." "Because I'm an excellent yeller." "I don't doubt it." "And fighter. My cousin gave me this nail file... the thing's just like a switchblade.”
“My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.”
“I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.”
“Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that was never moored, nor hear a shadow in its furs, nor move through thick life without fear. For us, all that's left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive. Deep in the transparent night they're still humming, at home in the dark wood on the mountain, in the mint and lungwort and the past. But lay to your heart my rough gift, this unlovely dry necklace of dead bees that once made a sun out of honey.”

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