"Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?"

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Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alethea Kontis

#Looks Quotes #Stories Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.”

Source : James Montgomery (1857). “The select poetical works of James Montgomery”, p.78
“I hit something...alright.”
“The telling of stories creates the real world.”
“For me surfing is just something that I love to do. I grew up surfing, is sort of like a family requirement. I can't imagine my life without it. But I am not defined by it, nor is my music. They are very separate.”

Source : Source: www.roomthirteen.com
“I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.”
“And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.”
“This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.”
“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”

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