"I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken."

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Source : Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.170, Random House

Rachel Hartman

#Thinking Quotes #Broken Quotes

“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”
“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.”
“A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.”
“Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!”
“When itâ€™s all said and done I would like to look back and think that I help to make modelling a possibility for a greater number of people. I donâ€™t do things that I will regret in the future. I tend to err on the side of caution. Not to mention the fact that the present world I reside in would not have been possible without my past. I am most proud of being able to represent my family and community with honour and dignity.”
“Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.”
“Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.”

Source : Richard Wright (1991). “Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider”
“What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?”

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