"Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him."

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Source : Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

Margaret Haddix

#Mother Quotes #Pain Quotes #Father Quotes

“I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything you can about the world you live in. That world can be the microcosm of your own emotions, or a society, or the cosmos. There's this constant desire for knowledge.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“I'm too mature to be angry.”
“No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.”
“Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.”

Source : "The Stars My Destination". Book by Alfred Bester (Chapter 16), 1957.
“In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.”
“America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.”
“If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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