"I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win."

-- Katherine Applegate

#War Quotes #Winning Quotes #Two Quotes

“As I loosen my grip on the past, as I keep taking one small step after another in the direction I want to go, I discover I'm being supported and guided after all, and that as soon as I'm willing to embrace change, something or someone comes along and shows me how. Â Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is flowing, magic happens.”

Source : Katrina Kenison (2013). “Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment”, p.153, Hachette UK
“Your biggest problem, is that you think the current problem you're facing is your problem”
“The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.”
“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”
“I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.”

Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com
“In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.”
“Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.”
“A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.”

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