"I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you."

-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Way Quotes #Saws Quotes #Let Me Quotes

“I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be greater still. For of what value is a life of slavery, of humiliation and contempt for that which you hold most dear: Your identity! I will therefore not give in to the Turkish Inquisition.”

Source : Leyla Zana (1999). “Writings from Prison”
“Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.”
“We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.”
“I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.”
“It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with sixteen a day dying there on that list, that more then half of the people in the position H's family was in will say no, will choose to burn those organs or let them rot. We abide the surgeon's scalpel to save our own lives, out loved ones' lives, but not to save a stranger's life. H has no heart, but heartless is the last thing you'd call her.”
“Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.”
“Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.”
“I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.”

Source : William Hamilton Maxwell (1833). “Stories of Waterloo”, p.4

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