"You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time youâ€™d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldnâ€™t know the outcome for a long time."

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Source : Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.375, Penguin

Meg Wolitzer

#Lonely Quotes #Children Quotes #Long Quotes

“A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.”
“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”

Source : "Aeneid" by Virgil, Book IV, 29-19 BC.
“...if you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.”

Source : "Evolutionary Design: A Conversation with Martin Fowler, Part III". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. November 18, 2002.
“Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.”
“We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.”

Source : "Ballmer Kept It Super Weird At Goodbye Meeting With Microsoft". Goodbye speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2013.
“Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" I asked. "If I did?" "I don't like it." He grinned. "It stays, Angel.”
“I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.”
“Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.”

Source : "Abstract Art" by Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson, 1990.

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