"The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea."

-- Lauren Groff

#Summer Quotes #Son Quotes #Sea Quotes

“My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.”
“I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.”
“Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.”
“I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.”
“I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.”
“Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.”
“Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.”
“We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.”

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