"Though I knew I shouldnâ€™t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row."

-- Nnedi Okorafor

#Hurt Quotes #Done Quotes #Painful Quotes

“The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.”
“Every day it gets easier to look into my own eyes on the mirror and say, "I love you just the way you are."”
“It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.”
“Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.”
“The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.”
“If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.”
“Theology without practice is the theology of demons”
“To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.”

Source : Eleanor Perenyi (2010). “Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden”, p.142, Modern Library

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