"A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them."

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Source : Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

Margaret Haddix

#Mother Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Fear Quotes

“Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.83, The New Press
“Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.”
“Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.”
“I'm a full-on appetizer kind of guy. I'm a Lunchables fanatic, too. I like anything tiny that you can make in front of you and eat. I'm fascinated by that. I don't know why but it's something I've always had.”
“Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.”

Source : "'The Role of Statistics in the Data Revolution?'. International Statistical Review 69: 5-10" by Jerome H. Friedman, April 2001.
“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
“I worked in the story department for years, on Cars and Toy Story 3.”

Source : "Director Dan Scanlon Talks MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, Landing His Directorial Debut, Who He Went to for Advice and the Film’s Technological Advancements". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 18, 2013.
“My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends...”

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