"I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages."

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Source : Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

Miriam Toews

#Sadness Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Heaven is the most beautiful thing God has ever made, outside of women, God bless them!-And in fact He even uses you women to symbolise the City and He calls that City His Bride, the New Heaven, the New Jerusalem! How about that? He couldn't think of anything more beautiful to symbolise that City than you, you beautiful girls, so He called it His Bride! Why? Because His Bride's going to live there!”
“Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.”
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
“No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation”
“An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.”
“May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.”
“Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.”
“Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.”

Source : "The Next American System". The Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.

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