"Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcÃ©e. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside."

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Source : "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Book by Marina Lewycka, March 31, 2005.

Marina Lewycka

#Mother Quotes #Memories Quotes #Father Quotes

“One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.”

Source : Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation
“There is an urgent need for the emergence of a new generation of apostles anchored firmly in the word of Christ, capable of responding to the challenges of our times and prepared to spread the Gospel far and wide.”
“For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.”
“The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored.”
“No man is lost while he yet lives.”
“True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.”

Source : "Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects".
“Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.”

Source : Frederick Temple, Rowland Williams, Baden Powell, Henry Bristow Wilson, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (2013). “Essays and Reviews”, p.373, Cambridge University Press
“I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.”

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