"I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show it my new toys. It's just an old spirit stuck between the worlds, right? What's to be scared of?"" ~Vic"

-- Claudia Gray

#Kids Quotes #Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“It makes me happy when my sons come home and tell me, 'We bumped into Donatella and she says hi.”

Source : "Stephanie Seymour: Mum's the Word" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 09, 2014.
“How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space â€œin no timeâ€ is to have denied its reality”
“Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard of no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.”
“The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.”
“There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.”
“Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me...might be a kind of trauma.”
“Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even that more limited role. Austerity, particularly in Europe, has added to the problem. It has not worked, even on its own terms.”
“And I realize now that that was . . . thatâ€™s the best way to love someone. Hold them close, know that youâ€™re loved, let it wash over you”

Source : Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.366, Penguin UK

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