"I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much."

-- Michelle Branch

#Long Quotes #Prove Quotes #Adamant Quotes

“There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love.”
“A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!”

Source : M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.647, Oxford Paperbacks
“We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage”
“I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.”
“. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.”
“We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.”
“You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.”
“A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.”

Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.151, Penguin

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