"I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past."

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Source : Cameron Dokey (2010). “Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan"”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

Cameron Dokey

#Moving On Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Past Quotes

“A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.”
“I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.”
“When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.”
“Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.”

Source : David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1976). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”
“The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.”

Source : Irving Howe (1980). “Celebrations and attacks: thirty years of literary and cultural commentary”, Harcourt
“Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.”
“Concord, California was a great place to grow up.”
“I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.”

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