"Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really."

-- Elizabeth Strout

#Children Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.”
“I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.”
“The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away.”
“Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.”
“There is nothing good in love but the physical part.”
“Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.”

Source : FaceBook post by Warren Adler from Oct 11, 2011
“I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal.”
“This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.”

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