"When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is."

-- Helen Dunmore

#Doubt Quotes #Young Quotes #Realising Quotes

“The less heart, the more comfort.”
“My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.' " She looked lost, but his da laughed. He'd known the old man, too. "He called me 'He Who Must Run into Trees,'" Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, "or sometimes 'Running Eagle.' " " 'Running Eagle'?" Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. "What's wrong with that?" "Too stupid to fly," murmured his father with a little smile.”
“I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!”
“I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke up from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect" (or beetle or cockroach, depending on the translation). I have to have that first line before I can go further.”

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“"Sometimes" is sometimes "not never".”
“Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.”
“He doesnâ€™t have to love your CD collection. He doesnâ€™t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and familyâ€”especially when theyâ€™re great.”
“Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.”

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