"Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going." "Don't be so fresh, young man!" "Gotta go," he says to me. "Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell." "Fall back, solider. Over and out."

-- Jennifer Donnelly

#Mom Quotes #Fall Quotes #Men Quotes

“... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.”
“I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother, who lived nearby and always had a kind word and some wisdom to pass on. One day she was complaining to her grandmother about some situation and her grandmother just turned to her, smiled sadly, and said, "Sometimes, darlin', you've just got to rise above yourself in this life." I've remembered that wise advice many times as I've faced trouble in my life.”
“Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.”
“It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.”

Source : Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.15, Macmillan
“We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.”
“Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.”

Source : "Parenting for Everyone". Book by Simon Soloveychik, 1989.
“While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her â€“ for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.62, Library of Alexandria
“The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.”

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