"Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross."

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Source : "Tigana". Book by Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#Bridges Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Longing Quotes

“I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate.”

Source : “Erin Burnett Ourfront”, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2012.
“This is so much harder than I ever thought it would be...because the thing is, even if you're just working part-time, your boss is going to expect a full week's worth of work, no matter how understanding she is. That's just the nature of the working world-things have to get done, babies or not. And if you're like me-if you're like any woman who ever did well in school and did well at her job-you don't want to disappoint a boss. And you want to do a good job raising your baby...It's not like you think it's going to be”
“My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.”
“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”
“The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.”
“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”

Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.55, New Directions Publishing
“I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.”

Source : "Out to Lunch With: Lamorne Morris, Who Spills on His Bad Church Behavior and Worst Date Ever" by Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. April 25, 2012.

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