"If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world"

-- Dorothy Nolte

#Children Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Parenting Quotes

“I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.”
“The only thing that might make me stay in bed would be fear. Once I get rest, then I can overcome the fear of a given day and then I'm ready. I'm ready to go. Not that I always have that fear, but sometimes that's the only thing that would keep me in bed more than just the laziness.”
“Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation. (161)”
“I'm very attracted to a girl's eyes. I think you can tell a lot by a girl's eyes”
“She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.”
“All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.”
“When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.”
“Now that it looks like things are headed on the right path, I'm ready to go back and play football.”

Source : "Bengals re-sign Devon Still" by Coley Harvey, abcnews.go.com. March 19, 2015.

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