"And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. Just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, I'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone."

-- Claire Messud

#Mother Quotes #Dream Quotes #Grief Quotes

“You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.”
“Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.”

Source : Elizabeth Smart (1994). “On the Side of the Angels: The Second Volume of the Journals of Elizabeth Smart”, London : HarperCollins
“Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.”
“I will risk everything to avoid being bored.”
“Murder is not about lust and itâ€™s not about violence. Itâ€™s about possession. When you feel the last breath of life coming out of the woman, you look into her eyes. At the point, itâ€™s being God.”
“When I feel like I'm in a rut, I remember it's the little things in life that are important, like riding a bike with a friend or eating ice cream with my baby niece.”
“It's like pain, this pleasure.”

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