"the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it."

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Pain Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Lost Quotes

“... everyone must play his role.”
“I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.”

Source : Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.218, Vintage
“You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.”
“I think and that is all that I am.”
“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.”
“What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh. For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard - The treble of heaven's harmony. These things he plants who plants a tree.”

Source : Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Heart Of The Tree”
“I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.”
“The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.”

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