"He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad."

-- Stephen Dobyns

#Ocean Quotes #Good Luck Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.”
“Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things - enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult
“Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.”
“The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.”
“I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life.”
“But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.”
“When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.24, Vintage
“I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits”

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