"Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language."

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Source : T.C. Boyle (2012). “When the Killing's Done”, p.101, A&C Black

T.C. Boyle

#Latin Quotes #Names Quotes #Connections Quotes

“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
“What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one? What if it is both more stable and more agileâ€”more responsive to the Holy Spiritâ€”when it exists in these many forms? And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest?”
“Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through...”
“It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.”
“I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?”
“As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A good mother is irreplaceable.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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