"The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe."

-- Marguerite Duras

#Death Quotes #Brother Quotes #Grief Quotes

“You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.”
“As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.”

Source : Justin Cronin (2012). “The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.352, Ballantine Books
“No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.”
“My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)”
“Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.”
“The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.”
“[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.”
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

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