"People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore."

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Source : Sarah McCoy (2012). “The Baker's Daughter: A Novel”, p.45, Broadway Books

Sarah McCoy

#People Quotes #Missing Quotes

“Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.”
“99 percent of success is built on failure.”
“A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.”
“Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.”
“Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.”
“Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.”

Source : Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.239, Simon and Schuster
“Your playing small doesn't serve the world.”
“He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.”

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