"She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself."

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Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.95, Penguin

Iain Pears

#Eye Quotes #Dark Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.”
“In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.”
“If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.”
“It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.”
“Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.”
“Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.”

Source : Source: justcreative.com
“I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.”
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”

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