"The way I see it,â€ she began, â€œyour motherâ€™s devoted her whole life to you kids.â€ She said â€œyou kidsâ€ in precisely the same tone I would have used for â€œyou infestation of cockroaches"

-- Jennifer Weiner

#Mother Quotes #Kids Quotes #Tone Quotes

“You can feel righteous fury in every frame of The Magdalene Sisters. The movie is both a masterpiece and a holy hell: Watching it, you feel you're being punished for a crime you didn't commit. Which puts you, come to think of it, in the same frame of mind as those poor Magdalene girls.”
“God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.”
“The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.”
“I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people were pretty boring. They liked to moan for hours on end about how hard it was to make ends meet, about the money they owed, the price of food, and other similar worries, but the minute some more brilliant or attractive subject come up, they were struck deaf.”
“Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.”
“I've been on the road since 1967.”
“It's not easy to take three ships out of service.”
“Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him.”

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