"I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken."

-- Jenny Downham

#Broken Quotes #Going Away Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I must have loved you a lot.”
“Since most of the action of the war actually happens off the page (offstage), I wanted to give the characters something they had to contend with on a daily basis, some sort of obstacle. Weather seemed to be the one great equalizer regardless of your station in life - when it snows, everyone is inconvenienced to a certain degree. Plus it's tactile, weather, it affects the skin.”
“I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.”

Source : Re: In praise of Java (Usenet article), groups.google.com. December 1, 2001.
“Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.”
“We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.”
“What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of MoliÃ¨re, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of PixÃ©rÃ©court? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?”
“The belts to me, they don't really mean much to be honest. It's the people who I fought and me going out there competing and fighting.”
“One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.”

Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2017). “Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922”, p.154, New York Review of Books

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