"Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable."

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Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.21, Knopf

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#Eye Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Flames Quotes

“We should seek to observe, and then to serve.”
“If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.”
“Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.”
“It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nerves”

Source : MaryJanice Davidson (2006). “Undead and Unpopular: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.70, Penguin
“Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.”
“The last time I didn't sexually harass someone here at the campaign, I didn't pay them $850,000 dollars.”
“On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.”

Source : Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat youâ€¦ You are made by the struggles you choose.”

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