"One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents."

-- Sara Shandler

#Inspirational Quotes #Mom Quotes #Dad Quotes

“Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.”
“What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.”
“A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.”
“I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.”
“There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].”
“If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.”

Source : Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.128, Penguin
“I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.”
“Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.”

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