"Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly."

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Source : Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

Miriam Toews

#Boys Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Air Quotes

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utterâ€” they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
“A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The crux ... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.”
“Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.”
“The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.”
“It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.”
“No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.”
“Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.”
“A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane.”

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