"If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless."

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China Mieville

#San Francisco Quotes #Brave Quotes #Trying Quotes

“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.167, Profile Books
“It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.”
“If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.”
“Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.”
“If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong,”

Source : "Ayelet Waldman Stands By Essay That Infuriated Moms Nearly A Decade Ago". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
“In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.”
“Dreams don't come true. Plans come true!”
“And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.”

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