"I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are."

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Source : Tracy Chevalier (2004). “The Lady and the Unicorn: A Novel”, p.13, Penguin

Tracy Chevalier

#Dog Quotes #Moving Quotes #Years Quotes

“Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 16, 2015
“You cannot heal what you cannot feel”
“After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so I don't think that introspection is powerful enough to resolve the specific issue about how many colours you can see.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.
“That's the real excellent scary part, that feeling, and that feeling won't come if the lady from next door is there and your mom won't ride the ride, because what brings on that feeling most is when your mom rides wedged in tight with you and your brother on nights like this, when your mom will scream the excellent scream, the scream that people you see in snatches on the boardwalk stop and stare for, the scream that stops the ride next door, the scream that tells us to our hearts the bolts have finally broken.”

Source : Mark Richard (2013). “The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories”, p.54, Anchor
“Whenever you do die people remember you, so it's not completely over. You don't 100 percent die when you die ever, because people still know who you were.”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

Source : Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.440, Bantam Classics
“My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess.”

Source : "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter Jr.)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. March 2008.
“Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.”

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