"While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark"

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Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Lucy Grealy

#Moving Quotes #Arrows Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.”
“A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.”
“Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?”

Source : "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing". www.imdb.com. 1987.
“Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to.”

Source : Source: soccerlens.com
“In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.”
“I think certain friendships have seasons, when you're closer with people when you're not, and so you can always have a relationship to someone or a group of friends that you don't necessarily have to work so hard to facilitate or to like maintain.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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