"When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you."

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Source : "Bridge to Terabithia". www.imdb.com. 2007.

Katherine Paterson

#Husband Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I just lay in my room for days â€¦ weeks,”
“I don't even know what I was running forâ€”I guess I just felt like it.”
“Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.”

Source : Ellen Sue Stern (1991). “The Indispensable Woman”, Bantam
“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
“Have I ever been horrified to see someone in my clothes? Many times, but I close my eyes and look the other way. That happens to everyone. What can you do? Go and tell her, 'Don't wear that dress again'? We designers always have fantasies in our heads, but the difficult task is to make them reality. Because you can be the best designer, but designing in your own place and with nobody wearing [your clothes], then what happens? You're nowhere.”
“I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand ... I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!”
“The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.”
“In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.”

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