"This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of it, smoking too much and growing too thin and having stray thoughts of jumping from my balcony like a tortured heroine in a Russian novel."

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Source : Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.33, Ballantine Books

Paula McLain

#Years Quotes #Two Quotes #Jumping Quotes

“I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.”
“I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.”

Source : "Neko Case Surges Forward with 'Flood'". "Morning Edition" with Ashley Kahn, www.npr.org. March 28, 2006.
“I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.”
“Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.
“Use your head; cut off theirs.”
“In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.”
“Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.”
“Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.”

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