"This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it."

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Source : Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.126, Penguin

Jay Asher

#Giving Up Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Saws Quotes

“Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.”
“I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.”

Source : Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com
“I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.”
“To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.”
“... enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.”

Source : Bill Cooke (2003). “The Gathering of Infidels: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association”, Pyr Books
“What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.”
“I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's writing always appealed to me: he took outlandish ideas and made them seem completely within the realm of possibility. I remember reading "Jurassic Park" and feeling like: "Oh, yeah -- no, that's totally happening right now. They're bringing back dinosaurs!”
“In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own Ultimate Gift.”

Source : Jim Stovall (2001). “The Ultimate Gift”, p.149, David C Cook

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