"The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past."

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Source : Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Lois Lowry

#Pain Quotes #Past Quotes #Unexpected Quotes

“The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.”

Source : Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.83, Penguin
“A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.”

Source : Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.91, Papadakis Publisher
“Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.”

Source : "Democratic Mayoral Candidate Forum: Gay and Lesbian Issues". www.gothamgazette.com. April 11, 2005.
“In love, be willing to fight for them, but never compete.”
“That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.”
“Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.”
“Science may be weird and incomprehensible--more weird and less comprehensible than any theology--but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn, slingshotting you around Venus and Jupiter on the way. We may not understand quantum theory (heaven knows, I don't), but a theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong.”
“Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.”

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