"I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote."

-- Ian Mcewan

#Intelligent Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“Every family is a 'normal' family - no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family can be made up of any combination of people, heterosexual or homosexual, who share their lives in an intimate (not necessarily sexual) way. ... Wherever there is lasting love, there is a family.”
“When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands.”
“The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.”
“You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what youâ€™re doing, where you are, who youâ€™re with, and if youâ€™re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.”

Source : Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
“Don't listen to the lies, I swear they all lies. You know I could be your knight in shining Armor All tires.”
“All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.”
“Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.”
“Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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