"I learned that if you love a boy you are no longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever."

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Source : Susan Minot (2014). “Thirty Girls”, p.167, Vintage

Susan Minot

#Hurt Quotes #Heart Quotes #Boys Quotes

“The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe, and that it teaches [in the words of Leo Marx] 'the essential meaninglessness of all creations of the mind: words, images, and ideas.'”
“I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.”
“Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 22, 2017
“The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.”
“Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.”
“Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.”
“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”
“The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.”

Source : Carol Bly (1988). “Letters from the Country”, HarperCollins

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