"Mama?" "Yes, Emmy." She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?" Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable."

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Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.

Karen White

#Mother Quotes #Pain Quotes #Rain Quotes

“An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.”
“People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, itâ€™s the stuff we CAN understand. Itâ€™s cats that are complicated.”
“Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.”
“The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons that embraces us all, our planetary home. And it needs us as never before. It calls to us to become, not heroes but community builders, builders of home, gatherers and embracers, bearers of hospitality, keepers of the shared space that nurtures us all. It calls us not to go forth and come back laden with honors but to honor where we are, who we are, and from that place to reach out to connect to and honor each other in the community of life.”
“We will be spending less in the transfer market in future years.”

Source : "Abramovich: no more of the big spender" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.
“I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.”
“I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Morley Baer, James Karman (2001). “Stones of the Sur”, p.20, Stanford University Press

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