"I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary."

-- Markus Zusak

#Winter Quotes #Stories Quotes #Records Quotes

“Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.”
“My mom will never march in a gay pride parade with a big sign. She is very private. She lives in Chattanooga. She tries so hard to understand me and my life. But she said to me once, "Leslie, if I live to be 105 I'll never understand this need you have to air your dirty laundry. Why can't you just whisper it to a therapist?!" She doesn't understand.”
“I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.”
“Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.”

Source : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1923). “The Challenge to Sirius”
“Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.”
“I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.”
“The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others.”
“Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation, work, or trade in a mindful, awake fashion. This implies, of course, that many people do not do so. In my experience, that is often the case. So I would definitely be in favor of conscious business; or conscious anything, for that matter.”

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