"Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own."

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Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alethea Kontis

#Dwelling Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.”
“I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.”
“Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.”
“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.”
“I try to stay level-headed and it's always the way I've been. Sometimes your personality out in the real world, you want to take that into your sport because that's where you feel comfortable. You never want to try to do something that's not you or you don't feel comfortable doing. That's where you get in trouble. It's the only way I've played sports and done things. I'm low-key, but I'm very competitive and hate to lose.”
“I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.”
“Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.”

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