"He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable"

-- Jodi Picoult

#Inspirational Quotes #First Love Quotes #Years Quotes

“The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.”
“You are my cat, and I am your human.”
“I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.”

Source : "A conversation with St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lance Berkman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.”

Source : Rubin Hurricane Carter, Ken Klonsky (2011). “Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom”, p.93, Chicago Review Press
“Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.”
“Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books
“I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.”
“The word baptism means derailment. Christ baptizes Peter on the rock when he tells him: "Because you confessed your love for me, your life is no longer your own. Before you said this, you fastened your belt and you walked wherever you liked. Now, others will put a belt around you and take you where you would rather not go." To submit to love is to be baptized, that is, to let one's life be forever interrupted. To not let one's life be interrupted is to say no to love”

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