"Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all."

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Source : FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Jun 14, 2013

Julia Quinn

#Smart Quotes #Heart Quotes #Personality Quotes

“An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.”
“The best way to understand any system is to understand the problem it was invented to solve.”
“Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.”
“When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.”
“no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we are not demanding that they be made perfect. ... If it is both possible and pleasant for me and my kind to enter, the world will become a livelier place. You'll see.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.106, Beacon Press
“I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.”
“Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.”
“The knock at the door tells the character of the visitor!”

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