"You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself."

-- Mitch Albom

#Peace Quotes #Said Quotes #Old Woman Quotes

“I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.”

Source : Speech at U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, delivered day Month 1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.”
“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.”
“Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent...it would not be because it cared.”
“We're lucky." He slipped his hand around her waist and splayed it in the small of her back. "Most couples have only one first kiss. We'll have two.”

Source : Christina Dodd (2009). “Dangerous Ladies”, p.265, Penguin
“My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.”
“I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.”
“I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.”

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