"Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace."

-- Cathy Kelly

#Hurt Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.”
“If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.. if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got.”
“Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological”
“I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.”
“Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.”
“Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.”
“They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.”
“I never say "get like me". I would hate for my competition to be on my level. In fact, stay exactly with what your doing.”

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