"I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be."

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Source : Claire Keegan (2010). “Foster”, p.11, Faber & Faber

Claire Keegan

#Spots Quotes #Turns Quotes

“I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.”
“Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.”
“Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college,”
“Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.”
“The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.”
“A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.”
“The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.”
“The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.”

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