"whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens."

-- Inez Haynes Irwin

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“Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.”
“The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.”
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.29, Canongate Books
“Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.”
“Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.”

Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.77, Penguin
“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.”
“When I watched Lifetime original movies, it took me a day or two to get over the idea that the cute boy next door is actually a serial killer.”
“When a thought oppresses you, do not be downhearted, but put up with it in courage, saying, 'They swarmed around me closer and closer, but I drove them back in the name of the Lord' (Ps. 118:11). Divine help will arrive at your side immediately, and you will drive them away from you, and courage will compass you round about, and the glory of God will walk with you; and 'you will be filled to your soul's desire' (Isa. 58:11).”

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