"Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world."

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Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.78, A&C Black

Anne Michaels

#World Quotes #Ghost Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.”
“Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.”
“She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.”
“In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.
“My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.”
“I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.”

Source : "Q&A with Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. October 18, 2011.
“The teenage pregnancy is such a tragic thing. It is such a sad and tragic thing because the children who have children do it because they think they are going to be loved. They are going to be loved, but they have to give love to be loved otherwise the child becomes depressed. Isolated and depressed. In other words apathetic.”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org
“No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario.”

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