"I realized that I'm a child." William looked point-blank at her chest. "No."

-- Ilona Andrews

#Children Quotes #Blank Quotes #I Realized Quotes

“This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent.' Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”
“Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.”

Source : "A Gathering Swarm" by Todd Gitlin, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2005.
“Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness to it.”
“Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.”
“Love what you do and do what you love.”
“Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.”
“I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm”, p.187, Macmillan
“Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.”

Source : Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.370, Pan Macmillan

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