"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."

-- Margaret Mead

#Family Quotes #Being Thankful Quotes #Support Quotes

“Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .”
“About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is based on tons of digging. But the vital importance of actually traveling to the settings of a novel really hit me. And it's not just the setting details, not just the visuals and other sensory data, that will pop. You'll find surprising clues that swerve your story in whole new, deeper, surprising, more organic ways.”
“When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it”

Source : Ann Zwinger (1975). “Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the American West”, p.13, University of Arizona Press
“If you fellows have been hunted from one end of the country to the other as I have been, youâ€™ll understand what a bad manâ€™s reputation is built on. Iâ€™ve had credit for more killings than I ever dreamt of”
“Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.”
“It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.”
“When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.”
“Of course we're Criminals”

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