"Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough."

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Source : "Say Goodbye: An FBI Profiler Novel". Book by Lisa Gardner, 2008.

Lisa Gardner

#Perfect Quotes #May Quotes #Moments Quotes

“We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it -- look at 9/11. [That] wasn't just bin Laden. Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.”
“Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.”
“You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I canâ€™t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.”
“Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.”
“All I ever wanted was to make scrilla / Have a recording session with J Dilla.”
“We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.”
“In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.”
“Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.”

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