"But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us."

-- Andrea Camilleri

#Love Quotes #Distance Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I don't understand why it's more socially acceptable to say that you are a shallow person than to just say this is not something you want to do. Especially because it's a really hard job. It's a really important job. And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.”
“Growth is the goal, and that goal is never completeâ€”art must be in constant change.”
“Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.”
“First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.”
“Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”
“I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.”
“My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.”
“The greatest single programming language ever designed”

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