"She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life."

-- Junot Diaz

#Girlfriend Quotes #Loss Quotes #Giving Quotes

“What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.”
“Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc”
“People always say be true to yourself. But thatâ€™s misleading, because there are two selves. Thereâ€™s your short term self, and thereâ€™s your long term self. And if youâ€™re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.”

Source : Brandon Stanton (2015). “Humans of New York: Stories”, p.120, Pan Macmillan
“People have a right to their opinion.”
“Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.”
“Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance.”
“It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more dollar damages accrue is a reflection of the greater amount of wealth we've created.”
“Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai”, p.95, Univ of California Press

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