"If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot."

-- Elizabeth Wein

#Liars Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Atoms Quotes

“How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan
“We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.”
“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
“Loving someone who doesn't love you back is like hugging a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it's going to hurt.”
“My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.”
“I just donâ€™t feel like you can have enough speed pass rushers on your club.”
“I realized that the ignorance was profound. I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, it's just that people didn't know what the Shari'a was, as such. They knew that it was something good. I should say perhaps that the Shari'a, etymologically in Arabic, means a desert path to water. It means a path towards salvation, in the seventh-century context, to the desert people. If you have a path to water, that's the path you want to take to get you where you want to get to; where you should get to. And that much was clear but beyond that people didn't know what the rules were.”
“The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world, when, at this very moment of annihilation, the moon, as though she had been waiting for her cue, sailed up the night.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2008). “Titus Alone”, p.17, The Overlook Press

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