"She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean."

-- Sara Sheridan

#Rain Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Grandmother Quotes

“One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.”
“Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“That you may be beloved, be amiable.”
“It's very rare to find a place where news itself has a political bent. Normally, let's say in the U.K. for instance, newspapers might explicitly support one party or the other, but television is just straight-up facts that are not influenced by any party from either side. In South Africa we try to maintain the same thing. Unfortunately, the government sometimes intervenes, but for the most part, the facts are the facts.”
“I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.”

Source : "'Penn & Teller: Bullshit!' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.
“Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own ***** and destructive impulses ...”
“The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.”

Source : Florence Ellinwood Allen (1965). “To Do Justly”, Cleveland : Press of Western Reserve University
“. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first.”

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