"I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit."

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Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.483, Bloomsbury Publishing

Jennifer Donnelly

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“Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.”
“Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.”

Source : Lawrence Hill (2009). “The Book of Negroes”, p.429, Random House
“People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.28, Wesleyan University Press
“I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”
“One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.”
“A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.”
“I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests.”
“Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails, for they have waited for their masters and mistresses for many years. You see mothers who have missed their sons. Fathers who had never spoken of love to their children, ready to embrace them as they voyage from the end of life. It shows the lies of this world, you see. We are wrong about so many things here. Mankind has done terrible things, yet we are forgiven.”

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