"Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them."

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Source : Leo Calvin Rosten (1972). “Rome wasn't burned in a day: the mischief of language”

Leo Rosten

#Future Quotes #Unexpected Quotes #Prepared Quotes

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”
“It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.”

Source : Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.230, Penguin
“All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.”
“I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.4, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.”
“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
“In todayâ€™s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters. For example, no one may lawfully have more than one spouse at a time. Why should the law not be able to prevent a person from having more than two children?”
“You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.”

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