"Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature."

-- Anita Shreve

#Loss Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I'm not a big fan of the tchotchkes. It always reminds me of a grandma's stuffy home with a million Santa dolls.”

Source : The Inside Source Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.
“You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.198, Broadway Books
“Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.”
“When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.”
“Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.”
“A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.”
“My friend had a brilliant idea. This impressed me. It reflected an immense deal of credit on his brain. But when he expressed it,it lost all value, and enjoyed but a commonplace status. My friend blamed this devaluation on the language. "I hate English," he said. So he studied another language. He mastered it so perfectly that there was no room left in his brain for a brilliant idea. Now he has a grudge against words. He refuses to use them. He prefers to shrug or grunt. A new crop of ideas is growing. They show promise of future refinement.”

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