"I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures."

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Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.182, Random House

Gail Caldwell

#Recovery Quotes #Loss Quotes #Different Quotes

“My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.”
“The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested”
“Pain is only temporary, glory is forever”
“We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.”
“Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,”
“We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!”

Source : Florence L. Barclay (2006). “The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.”

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