"Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time."

-- Jane Yolen

#Heart Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Goddess Quotes

“Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.”
“The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.”
“The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.”

Source : James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common.”
“How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.”
“Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course-arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.”
“The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.”
“In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.”

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