"The greatest griefs are silent."

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Source : Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.645, Cambridge University Press

Wally Lamb

#Grief Quotes #Silent Quotes

“For the millennium [New Year's Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I'm choosing option B”
“Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.”
“In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.”
“There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.”
“I want the audience to think about how many people are hiding in the shadows with the condition. I want the film to take away the stigma of thinking of this as a disease and an illness to be crushed. I want those in the condition to shine and contribute to the human spirit.”
“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.”
“We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].”
“Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.”

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