"As a literary device, sugar and pastry carried so many nuances - the sweetness of the past, the danger of overeating and addiction, the political and environmental devastation of plantations - it was just what a book needed."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Diana Abu-Jaber

#Book Quotes #Past Quotes #Addiction Quotes

“I am so happy, so in love, and so content.”
“Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.”
“Everything that happened in the past "It was all necessary to bring us to where we are.”
“Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.”
“Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.”
“You never really want anything you can easily have.”
“If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.”

Source : Charles Edward Montague (1922). “Disenchantment”
“The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”

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