"I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love - plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing - turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness. Neither could James. He understood. In such situations, you do one of two things - you either walk away and deny yourself, or you do sneaky things to get what you need. You attend weddings, you go for walks. You say, yes. Yes, you're my best friend, too."

-- Elizabeth McCracken

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“I wasnâ€™t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.”
“We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.”

Source : Joshua Ferris (2008). “Then We Came to the End”, p.58, Penguin UK
“The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.”

Source : "Anderson Cooper Comes Out: ‘The Fact Is, I’m Gay" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2012.
“I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org
“The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.”

Source : "Hiroshima".
“Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.”
“To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.75, ETT Imprint

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