"I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair."

-- Tayari Jones

#Love Is Quotes #Yarn Quotes #Sweaters Quotes

“A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”
“A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.”

Source : Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.9, Potomac Books, Inc.
“Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.”
“It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself”

Source : Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who is female/black/disabled/gay wants this not to be their defining characteristic; you are supposed to be blind to it. But then, on other occasions, you are supposed to observe special sensitivity, or show special respect.”
“I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.”
“You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.”

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