"This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you arenâ€™t as devastated."

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Source : Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.176, Macmillan

Emily Giffin

#Glasses Quotes #Half Quotes #Empty Quotes

“Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.”
“There are tiny choices that everyone can make that profoundly affect our collective water use. Like not having the tap on while brushing your teeth, not starting your shower ten minutes in advance, not doing laundry until you have a full load. In this particular issue, education really is power.”
“I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.”
“Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.”

Source : Ludovico Ariosto (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ludovico Ariosto - Complete Orlando Furioso (Illustrated)”, p.634, Delphi Classics
“The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.”
“Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.”
“Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels that the finished piece transcends the personal. All writers great and small must sometimes have felt that they have become part of what they wrote even more than it still remains a part of them.”
“Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.”

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