"I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me."

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Source : Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

Libba Bray

#Stupid Quotes #Hopeful Quotes #World Quotes

“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
“So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.”
“She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.”
“There is no dignity in a crying toothpick.”
“Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.”

Source : John Clare (1949). “Poems of John Clare's madness”
“It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.”
“There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.”
“I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training... you name it. I've got to!”

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