"For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else."

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Source : Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Scarlett Thomas

#Encouragement Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Orchids Quotes

“I have dangerous bones in my body.”
“Working with a manuscript with that kind of intimacy is kind of like taking a magnification mirror to your pores. Its horrifying but it shows just where the problems are. Of course, I do get bored of the words after a while. I take breaks from them so that we can breathe. And by the time I'm done with my umpteenth regurgitation, I hate the words. They become flavorless chewing gum. Like how really old gum gets once it starts disintegrating in your mouth. Gum that's lost its elasticity and feels like a sweater.”
“At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.”
“Each of us is born with a built-in GPS, God's Positioning System, a sophisticated navigational package that divinely aligns us with people and events and keeps us from losing our way.”
“We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.”
“All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark”
“The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it.”
“When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.”

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