"it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty."

-- Milan Kundera

#Men Quotes #Mysterious Quotes #Coincidence Quotes

“After a while, the fear became a habit, too.”

Source : Celeste Ng (2014). “Everything I Never Told You: A Novel”, p.46, Penguin
“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
“We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.”
“Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.”

Source : Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”
“The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.”
“My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.”
“How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.”
“I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.”

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