"But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete."

-- Sarah Dessen

#Relationship Quotes #Mom Quotes #Children Quotes

“Sometimes, the hardest foster children to take are teenage boys, which I was one, and I was never adopted or anything, and so I think if people up more for teenage boys, that might be beneficial.”
“I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.”
“All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!”
“Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.”
“For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.”
“That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.”

Source : Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, p.11, Bantam
“Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.
“It's been Axelle's [Carolyn] and my burden to bear, for better or worse. A very fun burden to bear.”

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