"Well,I hope you like the ring." He held it out to me, he velvet lid still closed. "My mom hates it." "I'm sure I'll love it,then," I said, and he laughed."

-- Amanda Hocking

#Mom Quotes #Hate Quotes #Velvet Quotes

“Patience is decisive indecision.”
“We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.”
“Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward.”
“Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage.”
“An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.”
“Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.”
“He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.”

Source : James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.20, Oldcastle Books
“Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.”

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