"You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place."

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Source : Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.7, Canongate Books

Kelly Link

#Life Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Buried Quotes

“You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.”
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.”

Source : "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.
“If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe.”
“It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.”
“You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: "Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.”
“Aeriel felt her heart grow troubled. "I know," she said. "I know that he is evil, but his beauty unmakes me. Every time he looks at me, I die.”
“Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.”
“I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.”

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