"I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky,"

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Source : Julie Gregory (2003). “Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood”, Bantam

Julie Gregory

#Fall Quotes #Pride Quotes #Blue Quotes

“There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.”
“Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.”
“People in Iceland are complete chickens in the cold. You think, "Oh, you must not be cold because you're from Iceland," but we're never in the cold.”
“You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.”
“I've known where my heritage is from all along.”

Source : "New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez Says She Has Proof That Grandparents Weren't Undocumented". www.foxnews.com. November 14, 2011.
“I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind...”
“That's it. Love makes us all strong.”
“Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.”

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