"Sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't get it."

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Source : Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.73, Portobello Books

Sloane Crosley

#Want Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I don't know if people know how hard it is to get a hit or how hard it is to field a ground ball. It's an easy game in principal, but to actually execute the game it's very difficult.”
“A Christmas tree--the perfect gift for a guy. The plant is already dead.”
“I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.”
“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

Source : "The Little White Bird". Book by James M. Barrie, 1902.
“Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.”
“I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.”
“Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.”
“I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.”

Source : "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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