"Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend."

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Source : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.176, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

David Klass

#Mean Quotes #Doors Quotes #Grandfather Quotes

“If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1892). “Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic”
“The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.”

Source : Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.201, Penguin
“I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.”
“Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.”
“Would you respect me if I didn't have this gun? Cause without it, I don't get it, and that's why I carry one.”
“In the Buddhist tradition, where mindful meditation comes from, anger is regarded as a somewhat unhealthy,unskillful emotion because we can be blinded by it. We don't see clearly and tend to do things and say things that are harmful out of the anger because we don't have clarity.”
“To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.”
“I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.”

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