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Karen Thompson Walker
"This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall." --
Source : Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
Karen Thompson Walker
#Beautiful Quotes
#Girl Quotes
#Summer Quotes
“The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing.”
Source : James Stalker (1902). “The Seven Cardinal Virtues”
“I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.”
Source : Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.
“In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.”
“Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.”
“Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.”
“We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.”
“Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?”
“If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love.”