"Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing. And yet, my realization that they didn't know what I'd been through was like a cold shower for just a moment. Here I was looking at the first really familiar faces I'd seen in over a year, and they acted as though I'd merely been on vacation."

-- Diet Eman

#Mother Quotes #Lying Quotes #Father Quotes

“I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.”
“It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.”
“I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.”
“All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing”
“The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing Iâ€™ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and Iâ€™ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.”
“In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.”

Source : Kevin Starr (1986). “Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era”, p.134, Oxford University Press
“These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.”
“She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.”

Source : Elizabeth George (2007). “A Suitable Vengeance”, p.446, Bantam

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