"The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows."

-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#Women Quotes #Eyebrows Quotes #Way Quotes

“More than fans, they felt like a team of morale-boosters who would always be around to remind me of my own worth”
“According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”
“PE is the sound of naked defiance.”
“Good writing is like a windowpane.”
“LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.”
“It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.”
“I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.”
“...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.119, Penguin

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