"I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen."

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Source : Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”

Kate Braverman

#Space Quotes #Vampire Quotes #Each Day Quotes

“Say â€œnoâ€ only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, â€œAll severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.”
“Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.”
“Every act is an expression of one's self.”
“I am biased to my show as a whole but it is still very entertaining.”
“I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I loveâ€“of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Agesâ€“back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter”
“The good thing about social media is it gives everyone a voice. The bad thing is â€¦ it gives everyone a voice.”

Source : Brian Solis (2014). “The Brian Solis Digital Reader”, p.375, John Wiley & Sons
“Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”
“Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger, broader; one's sympathies are amazingly more tender. No matter what the result, if you haven't really loved, you haven't really lived.”

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