"At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an Idea. Another person. An idea of a person."

-- Meg Rosoff

#Ideas Quotes #Despair Quotes #Littles Quotes

“It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.”
“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
“We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.”
“The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's all that's knowable and even the present isn't knowable. The present becomes the past... so you really don't know anything.”
“If you enter a race and finish last, you are a winner. The loser never entered the race.”
“B*tches come and go but friends are for real.”
“No one knows enough to be a pessimist”
“Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.”

Source : Joanna Russ (2005). “The Two of Them”, p.8, Wesleyan University Press

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