"Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms."

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Source : Amy Bloom (2010). “Love Invents Us”, p.198, Vintage

Amy Bloom

#People Quotes #Arms Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.”

Source : "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.
“Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.”
“An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future.”
“What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.”
“What is ambition but desire of greatness? And what is greatness but extent of power?”
“After the NBA and ABA merged, players could come out after high school. Still, there were only a few cases prior to Kevin Garnett coming out in 1995, so Nike and the other companies were only involved in the college game.”
“Marc Allen is a living example and proof that the magical approach can help us create our ideal life - easily.”
“But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.”

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