"I'm grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together. It's harder to judge the ones that took so long to finish. With those, I've lost perspective. Mostly I'm just glad that I can be done with them."

-- Kelly Link

#Grateful Quotes #Eye Quotes #Long Quotes

“My butterflies are still going strong. I just hope they are flying in formation.”
“The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.”

Source : Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.19, HarperCollins UK
“This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen generation, because we are literally losing thousands and thousands of our indigenous brothers and sisters to the effects of welfare â€“ drugs, gunja, low morale, alcoholism. I see it everyday and it can stop. The solution is education, training and a guaranteed opportunity.”
“The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.”
“The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1861). “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection. A sermon”, p.11
“Do not jump the gun because of gossip.”
“I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.”
“When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the - Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.”

Source : "Roddy Doyle's Man Of Ireland At The End Of The Road". "Morning Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 20, 2010.

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