"And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense."

-- Gaby Dunn

#Life Quotes #Secret Quotes #Flaws Quotes

“Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.”
“As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.”
“The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend him or herself.”
“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
“Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.”
“I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre.”
“The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.”
“Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.41, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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