"There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her."

-- Jim Crace

#Missing Someone Quotes #Missing Quotes #Solace Quotes

“My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.”
“Seeing the Mexican fighters, it gave me, physically and mentally, ready for an all our war.”
“There are few people who define the word, 'rock star' better than U2's Bono. He's revered the world over not just for leading one of the biggest bands ever, but for his very public work on behalf of the underprivileged in Africa.”
“Movement isn't progress.”
“A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.”
“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
“It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.”
“The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.”

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