"One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world."

-- Meghan O'Rourke

#Mother Quotes #Home Quotes #Years Quotes

“Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite”

Source : Iain Banks (2008). “Dead Air”, p.118, Hachette UK
“Things that don't get better, get worse.”

Source : Ellen Sue Stern (1988). “The Indispensable Woman”, Bantam
“Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.”
“The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.”

Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.48, University of Iowa Press
“I like the idea of having a calm, quiet room to work on my [art] while knowing that outside there's noise and a lot happening. It's reassuring to know the 'everyday' continues even though inside the studio you feel so disconnected from it.”
“Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward it and wonder. I never wondered. I read. Dark signs that crawled toward the edge of the page. It took me years to grow a heart from paper and glue. All I had was a flashlight, bright as the moon, a white hole blazing beneath the sheets.”
“The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.”
“We must make no secret of the fact that we are a revolutionary party , prepared to give leadership on the streets as well as in the elected chambers & that we are out for a revolutionary state”

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