"The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive."

-- Anita Diament

#Daughter Quotes #Memories Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined. But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black.”
“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
“I am evergreen, and with every passing day, I am becoming younger.”
“The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? The famished men need not stay famished. But to gorge themselves in this heartbreaking way consuming, utterly destroying the common promise of their greed, was that ever necessary?”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.85, Heinemann
“The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.”
“As we trust God to give us wisdom for today's decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future.”
“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.”

Source : Song: Must I Paint You a Picture?
“I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up.”

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