"The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar."

-- Bertolt Brecht

#Hurt Quotes #Rain Quotes #Fall Quotes

“It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.”
“I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.”
“Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.”
“You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide; they look alarmed.”
“Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts”
“Live in rooms full of light.”
“I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.”
“I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.”

Source : "This much I know: Elmore Leonard". Interview with John O'Connell, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

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