"Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself."

-- Rachel Cusk

#Leaving Quotes #Able Quotes #Way Quotes

“I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God...I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.”
“Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.”
“Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.”

Source : Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer (2011). “Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story”, p.9, Harper Collins
“No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.”

Source : Frank Norris (2012). “McTeague”, p.92, Penguin
“If you're making a film, the one thing I've learned is you have to pick somebody really well-known to make it relevant.”
“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead”

Source : "Libraries: Cathedrals of Our Souls" by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2012.
“Except wind stands as it never stood It is an ill wind turns none to good.”

Source : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.39
“He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.”

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