"You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die."

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Source : E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 4: Real Live Boyfriends”, p.163, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

E. Lockhart

#Goes On Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.”
“The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences...”

Source : Rheta Grimsley Johnson (2010). “Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir”, p.190, NewSouth Books
“I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)”
“Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.”
“I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy!”
“The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.”
“I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, VergangenheitsbewÃ¤ltigung.”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.10, Granta Books
“It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.”

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