"When we love someone it is because we built that feeling, bit by bit. It's a choice. It's what we make only for ourselves..."

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Source : Bruce Brooks (1992). “What hearts”, Harpercollins

Bruce Brooks

#Choices Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Everything edible is fried in Texas! Or it is buried in the ground to cook before it is eaten. ... Texas food should be forbidden! 'The steaks at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas!' And they are always afloat in grease. Next morning you are served a smaller steak, which serves as a platform for two fried eggs ... all of this afloat in the same grease! 'Chicken, you say? You bet! Comin' up!' Same grease! They are right. Comin' up! For hours afterwards. I couldn't believe the crust of an apple pie! Same grease!”
“For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.”
“That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.”
“Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Â Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life”
“Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.”
“Had I managed to fall into some sort of carnivorous plant? Yeah, bleed on the man-eating plant. Always a good plan.”

Source : Diana Rowland (2012). “Touch of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Five”, p.58, Penguin
“People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.”

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