"I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter."

-- Billie Holiday

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“You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.”

Source : Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”
“The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer's actions.”
“There’s a massive glitter ball in my head and it has never stopped turning”
“The older I become, the more I think about my mother.”
“I can't control what people think. They know who I am.”
“You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.”
“Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.”
“Those things that are the most obvious are the very things we've most likely to overlook.”

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