"The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost."

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Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

Marina Keegan

#Tonight Quotes #Cost Quotes #Middle Quotes

“The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But the best Home Rule for him, as far as I can understand, Is the abolition of strong drink from the land.”

Source : William Topaz McGonagall, “The Demon Drink”
“Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for that event to occur. The larger, more significant, or more energetic the event, the more it tends to remain as it originally happened, despite any interference." I frowned. "There's...a law of conservation of history?”
“I am my biggest marital problem”
“Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.”
“The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.”

Source : George Catlin (1857). “Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: With Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing ; with 360 Engravings, from the Author's Original Paintings”, p.23
“If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will...”
“I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.”
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

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