"The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is."

-- Gary D. Schmidt

#Grace Quotes #World Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
“Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.”

Source : Li-Young Lee, Earl G. Ingersoll (2006). “Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee”, p.77, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.”

Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.332, Simon and Schuster
“The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them”
“How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?”

Source : "Fictional character: Annie Johnson". "Imitation of Life", www.imdb.com. 1959.
“I think Ive done the best I could have done. But I keep wanting to play better, go further. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I havent yet done. When I was younger I thought maybe Id reached that peak. But Im 86 now, and if I make it through to next month, Ill be 87. And now I know it can never be perfect, it can never be exactly what it should be, so you got to keep going further, getting better.”
“The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.”
“Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.”

Source : Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2003). “Trick of the Eye”, Miramax Books

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