"When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me"

-- Jacqueline Carey

#Pity Quotes #Cruelty Quotes #Casts Quotes

“History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.”

Source : "Fixed" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 29, 2010.
“Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing thatâ€™s pretty/Is the thought of getting out,”

Source : "Song: 'Trouble Town'". 2012.
“Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?”

Source : "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.
“I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.”
“Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?”

Source : Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 10), 1956.
“I don't live in the past.”
“I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.”

Source : Samuel Garth (2017). “Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, p.301, Youcanprint
“They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.”

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