"Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur."

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Source : Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

Mira Bartok

#Memories Quotes #Wings Quotes #Brain Quotes

“It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.”
“But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

Source : A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)
“We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.39, Penguin
“There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.”

Source : Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.87, Ageless Reads
“Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.”
“My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.”
“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
“You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.”

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