"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."

-- Joyce Maynard

#Giving Up Quotes #Men Quotes #Age Quotes

“Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.”
“You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space”

Source : Natasha Trethewey (2007). “Native Guard”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”

Source : Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.237, Oneworld Publications
“Sometimes even lawyers need lawyers.”
“Academia is a graveyard of poets.”
“So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.”
“If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet.”
“Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.”

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