"Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me."

-- Meghan O'Rourke

#Mother Quotes #Loss Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I live on a boat two months out of the year, and if I did not have that then I don't know how I'd be able to handle all this.... I am a very intense person on stage. I have to remember why I am there, what I am doing. You can spend all day backstage preparing for the show and lose sight of why you are doing this. Off stage, I am a very simple kind of guy. I live my life in flip-flops.”
“In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.”
“I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?”
“If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!”
“I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it functions, but I think that, in some senses, in those two novels, that was difficult for people to see.”
“The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.”
“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”

Source : Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.223, Simon and Schuster
“It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.”

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