"My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?" "Lydia," he said. "I apologize."

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Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.19, Scholastic Inc.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#Dog Quotes #Dad Quotes #Father Quotes

“Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life,”
“My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing”
“The luxurious ache of tired but not weary limbs.”

Source : Margaret Fairless Barber (1950). “The roadmender: and other writings”
“... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.”
“When I first started comedy, before I kind of gained any national prominence, I - in a weird way - went back to that. Marc Maron had me on WTF making fun of me about that when I first opened for him. I had this very kind of hip-hop bravado to me, and I realized that now I've let some of that go in my stage presence, that maybe that was because I had dropped that completely from my life, and when I got onstage I sort of rekindled it. And I think now that it was perhaps a defense mechanism that was left over from those days, which I think is kind of interesting.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“How does anybody ever think of anything?”
“Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.”

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