"All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?"

-- Mary Balogh

#Heart Quotes #World Quotes #Taught Quotes

“I want the words to be read in conjunction with the music.”
“There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.”

Source : "In the Face of Change" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.
“Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.”

Source : "How to spread the word about radical ideas" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.
“Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.”
“Cricketers like Jadeja come once in a lifetime, and I am sorry he didnâ€™t play in my time. Could have added a few more cheap wickets to my tally.”
“There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.”

Source : "True Humanism". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. xi), 1938.
“There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.”
“When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!”

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