"Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams."

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Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.111, Hachette UK

Janet Fitch

#Dream Quotes #Pain Quotes #Sick Quotes

“Iâ€™d learned a long time ago that you canâ€™t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but itâ€™s the devil to prove you didnâ€™t do something.”
“They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or talk their pain. So the smart people make music and you can kinda hear about it without them saying anything.”
“Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.”
“If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.”

Source : "Sugamo Diary" by Yoshio Kodama, (p. 30), 1960.
“Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule”
“The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.”
“I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.”
“You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?”

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