"Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten."

-- Veronica Roth

#Hurt Quotes #Memories Quotes #Pushing Quotes

“I hate the phrase â€œOne thing led to anotherâ€. What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a writer to tell me how that made this happen? â€œAdolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to anotherand the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japanâ€.”
“He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesnâ€™t know when heâ€™s going to be back, but suggests we put off the wedding for a few days. The rotter! How dare he just zoom off and not tell me where heâ€™s going, or who heâ€™s going to help, or what exactly heâ€™s up to!â€ Yeah, how dare he go out and be all heroic and stuff when you want him here slobbering over your big boobs.”

Source : Katie Macalister (2007). “Holy Smokes: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.101, Penguin
“Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.”

Source : 'A Spanish Drama' ch. 2
“We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.”
“But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.”
“Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.”
“Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts.”
“While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.”

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