"I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own."

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Elizabeth Kostova

#Tears Quotes #Poetic Quotes #Tropes Quotes

“I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.”
“You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.”
“Delegation is the passing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility.”
“The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there!”
“Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.”

Source : Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.174, Penguin
“Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.”
“Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those you serve], they offer you the occasion for practices which increase your merit in the measure that you make them meritorious by your patience.”
“This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.”

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