"When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it."

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Source : "Fig Pudding". Book by Ralph Fletcher, September 3, 2013.

Ralph Fletcher

#Sadness Quotes #Someone You Love Quotes #Way Quotes

“When I hear him sing and see what he can do, though, it's always a reminder of why I look up to Usher as my mentor and why I will always be an Usher fan to my core. But I'm lucky to say that he's an even better friend to me than he's a mentor. He's truly the real deal.”
“Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”
“I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.”
“If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!”
“We're all just walking each other home.”
“Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption”
“My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes.”

Source : Jennifer Echols (2011). “Love Story”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.”

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