"It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions."

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Source : Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

Amber Dermont

#Silly Quotes #People Quotes #Obsession Quotes

“I think a lot of people see, obviously, the business side of my father. But, I mean, he's just a great guy. We enjoyed the holidays so much. To be able to spend time with him when he's not necessarily working or not doing the political thing, I mean, he's much more of a blue collar American.”

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“There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.”
“Listen to the voice that speaks inside”
“People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal with them; it gives you a set of rules.”
“It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.”
“We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.”
“I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and animals and the ants- perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in your mother's womb. Is it logical you would be walking around entirely orphaned now? The truth is you turned away yourself, and decided to go into the dark alone. Now you are tangled up in others, and have forgotten what you once knew, and that's why everything you do has some weird sense of failure in it.”
“True loyalty is proven not proclaimed.”

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