"When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them."

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Shirley Hazzard

#Hurt Quotes #Trying Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.”

Source : "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,
“But it's daylight," she said at last. "Vampires can't go out in the sun, everyone knows that!" Bones chuckled. "Right And we shrink back from crosses, can't travel over water, and always get staked in the end by the righteous slayer. Really, who'd be afraid of a creature like that? All you'd need is a Bible, a tanning bed, and some holy water to send us shivering to our dooms.”
“I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.”
“I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.”
“I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!”
“The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.”
“We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.”
“Only the series of colors on the canvas with all their power and vibrancy could, in combination with each other, render the chromatic feeling of that landscape.”

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