"He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box."

-- K.J. Parker

#Girl Quotes #Pain Quotes #Children Quotes

“Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”
“The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.”

Source : "A Book of French Quotations" edited by Norbert Guterman, 1963.
“The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.”

Source : John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”
“Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.”
“I think that good things will happen in the Middle East, in Israel, and to American progressive Jewry only if we work together to save a progressive Israel that progressive Americans can have affinity with again.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.”
“This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.”
“Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he's ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs.”

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