"The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the wallsâ€”even if you'd once been best friendsâ€”was now just that, outsiders."

-- Meg Wolitzer

#Wall Quotes #Kids Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.”

Source : Charles Taze Russell (1913). “Studies in the Scriptures”
“I would decriminalize marijuana, but you step out of your house high and you bother somebody else in any way, shape or form, I'm going to slap a fine on you that's going to curl your hair!”
“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
“Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.”
“Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.”
“Every life is a profession of faith ...”
“Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.”
“I was always handsome under all the fat.”

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