"..Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to imagine."

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Source : "The Empty Family: Stories". Book by Colm Toibin, October 1, 2010.

Colm Toibin

#Pain Quotes #Regret Quotes #Attachment Quotes

“I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A person may look strong on the outside, but may need another's emotional support.”
“Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.”
“Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?”
“They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.”
“It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.”
“Everybody looking at you crazy, What you gon' do? Lift up your head and keep moving, Or let the paranoia haunt you?”
“But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?”

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