"I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss."

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Emily Susan Rapp

#Believe Quotes #Loss Quotes #Great Love Quotes

“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.”
“There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.”
“The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.”
“I don't have a life-style, I have a life.”
“They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.”
“O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?”
“Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures. When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.”
“After all, in both languages we were dealing in large measure not with English and French, but with Scots and Irish, Bretons and Normans ... There could be no more eloquent illustration of the colonial mind-set than a bunch of Celts and Vikings in a distant northern territory insulting each other as les Anglais and the French as if they were the descendants of the people who had subjected and ruined them.”

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