"He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away."

-- Elizabeth Strout

#Darkness Quotes #Going Away Quotes #Arms Quotes

“In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.”
“I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band.”
“I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.”
“The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.”
“I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.”
“What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.”

Source : Mario Puzo (1996). “The Last Don”, Random House Large Print Publishing
“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.”
“There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good.”

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