"I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding."

-- Cesare Pavese

#Blood Quotes #Understanding Quotes #World Quotes

“Life sucks, and then you die...”
“Love makes you weak. This I know for sure. Mom loved Roger. Roger loved Mom.And look what happpened there. She died. She thought her love made her strong. She kept telling me-after she was diagnosed-she ket telling me, "I'm going to beat this Kyra. I'm going to come out of it. I love you and I love your father and that love is my strength. You're my strength.”
“The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.8, Faber & Faber
“Of course, if there should be war, it wouldn't last long - not in the twentieth century; and no one wants it. There would be, perhaps, a few skirmishes on the frontiers, and then everything would be arranged diplomatically.”
“One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.”
“I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.”

Source : "TV.com Q&A: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. January 10, 2008.
“Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.”

Source : Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.16, Penguin
“If you have a friend with a blond mustache, he wants to touch you.”

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