"And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heartâ€”knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we canâ€™t have again what once seemed ours for everâ€”the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. Theyâ€™ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass."

-- J. L. Carr

#Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes #Voice Quotes

“A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible. Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.”
“In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.”
“If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.”
“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.”
“As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care. "Woman?" "Hmmm?" "What's your name?" "Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse." "Thank you, Sookie." "Welcome, Eric.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.789, Penguin
“I said what I felt, and people try to control people. But you can never control me. I'm a 31-year-old juvenile delinquent. Nobody can control me.”
“How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to the writing task. There is no single theology here.”
“Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.”

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