"In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?"

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Rumi

#Names Quotes #Forever Quotes #Silence Quotes

“There are certain aspects of me that can be bad-ass sometimes, but being able to push it to the extreme is something I'd love to play. You don't get those roles, as a female, and especially as an indigenous female. There aren't those roles out there, so I want that. I want women to see a strong, sexy female without showing her body too much.”
“What I want people to take from this is that it isn't simple. People judge you, people tell you what you should do. You do the best you can.”
“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
“Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature.”
“There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.”
“Be a fountain, not a drain.”
“Loser loser Double loser whatever as if get the picture DUH!”
“What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.”

Source : Celeste Ng (2014). “Everything I Never Told You: A Novel”, p.280, Penguin

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