"Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and you're already old or you already have a household of kids or you look down and see your feet are miles and miles away from the rest of youâ€”and you realize you've grown up."

-- Jacqueline Woodson

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“It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason.”

Source : Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.203, Random House
“I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.”
“History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.”
“Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.”
“There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.”
“I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.”
“a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.163, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.”

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