"Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away."

-- Louise Rennison

#Parent Quotes #Going Away Quotes #Said Quotes

“I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.”
“Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'”
“We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.”
“Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.”
“The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren't sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn't silence at all.”
“I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.”
“I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.”
“And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.”

Source : Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.164, Macmillan

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