"My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping."

-- Kate Christensen

#Sunshine Quotes #Color Quotes #Weather Quotes

“I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.”
“I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.”
“The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.”
“I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.”

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“It doesn't seem weird to me, at all. I'm in Baton Rouge getting ready to direct a movie for Sony, and I'm in the movie and I'm directing it. I know it's kind of this thing where some people find it difficult. I just finished a movie with Mario Van Peebles and he acted and directed as well too. I think we all feel similar that it just kind of seems natural.”
“Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.”
“The sinful emotions are stirred most deeply by self-love.”
“I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldnâ€™t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2014). “Ruin and Rising”, p.72, Macmillan

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