"To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season."

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Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

Gretel Ehrlich

#Memories Quotes #Passion Quotes #Long Quotes

“The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.”
“I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.”

Source : Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.206, Hachette UK
“I didn't go and quit anything. I remained who I am, so I don't know if anybody wants to criticize. I'm still me.”
“I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because unfortunately people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
“Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.”
“I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.”
“I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.”

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