"Sorrow can be a bully."

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Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

Amy Waldman

#Bully Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.”
“If you can't feel then why did you kiss me? Because I can feel it here, in my heart.”
“When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.”
“When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.”
“I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE...”
“An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.”
“You want everyone to succeed in your family.”
“Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.”

Source : John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.115, Manchester University Press

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