"Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe and fall, that lets the air smell of seed and soil. And there must be rage, yes I think there is rage toward such a severing, such a ragged-deep rupture with the world."

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Source : Lauren Slater (2012). “Welcome to My Country”, p.129, Anchor

Lauren Slater

#Fall Quotes #Loss Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are teams that wait for you and teams that look for you: Espanyol look for you. I feel very close to their style of football.”
“Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow”
“Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table.”
“If a president can change some laws, can he change ALL laws? Can he change election laws? Can he change discrimination laws? Are there any laws, under your theory, that he actually HAS to enforce?”
“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
“I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.”
“I am a geek dad, believe me. I've got my iPad with me; I've got my iPhone 4; I've got my Xbox. I love technology and I want to feel like I'm living in the future, and these devices help me feel that way.”

Source : "Voice of Geek: an interview with Dee Bradley Baker". Interview with John Booth, www.wired.com. August 27, 2010.

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