"Home was always the place she went to when she had to start over."

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Source : Lorna Landvik (1999). “Patty Jane's House of Curl”, Ivy Books

Lorna Landvik

#Home Quotes #Starting Over Quotes

“A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to them.' What does that say about the monkhood? He can't tolerate people with 'dust in their eyes.' All that these monks have developed here is a safe little self-centred world which they call holy because villagers bow down to them. Living in a forest and wearing a robe doesn't make you better than anybody else.”
“The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.18, Penguin
“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”

Source : Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster
“Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee.”

Source : "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me" (hymn) (1776)
“I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.”
“My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche.... It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.”
“West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.”

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