"I jest, of course; premature ***** isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off."

-- Julie Burchill

#Morning Quotes #Husband Quotes #Phones Quotes

“Our larger goal is to tell the story”
“Music is a performance and needs the audience.”
“When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.”
“People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.”
“The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.”
“Go sweep out the chamber of your heart. Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved. When you depart out, He will enter it. In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.”
“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”

Source : Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.40, Penguin

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