"To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me very often, but I hated it when it did. It was faulty wiring in the female body, tear ducts attached directly to the frustration meter. Trying to explain to men that no, I wasn't being manipulative, I just couldn't stop my eyes from leaking salt water, only added to the aggravation."

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Source : C.E. Murphy (2010). “Demon Hunts”, p.151, LUNA

C.E. Murphy

#Girl Quotes #Real Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Seeing through is rarely seeing into.”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
“My values are non-negotiable. And if it means not getting a role, it means not getting a role.”
“If I have to put anyone to bat for my life, it'll be Kallis or Dravid.”
“I'm just singing what I feel in my heart.”
“Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.”
“I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.”
“Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.”

Source : "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part IV, Book VI, Chapter XII. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 665, 1802.
“A plant is only worth growing if it looks good when it is dead.”

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