"There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you."

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Source : Kris Radish (2009). “The Shortest Distance Between Two Women”, p.235, Bantam

Kris Radish

#Joy Quotes #Faces Quotes #Sun Quotes

“There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'”
“I was very aware that I was a woman and that the Iditarod was a big thing for women, but I didn't want to be given any special treatment. I just wanted to be viewed as a musher.”
“Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.”
“I love God, and I'm a follower.”
“What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.”
“We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.”
“An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery”
“So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.”

Source : Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.23, Random House

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