"Part of the beauty of love was that you didnâ€™t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didnâ€™t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all."

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Source : Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings: A Novel”, p.52, Penguin

Meg Wolitzer

#Needs Quotes #Feels Quotes #Refuse Quotes

“Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.”

Source : "Dancing in the Flames". Book by Marion Woodman, 1996.
“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.”
“Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.”
“Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.”
“I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like Hulk and The Punishers,”
“We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.”

Source : William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.88
“Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.”
“A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.”

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