"No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end."

-- Melissa de la Cruz

#Daughter Quotes #Son Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.”
“Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.323, Simon and Schuster
“I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.”

Source : Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.
“In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.”
“I'm not really an art collector - I'm more of a person who picks up things. I have pieces by people like Gerhard Richter, for example, but then also others by unknown Japanese artists, and not many real art collectors do that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.”
“Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.”
“I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.”

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