"But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it."

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Source : Vanessa Veselka (2011). “Zazen”, p.190, Red Lemonade

Vanessa Veselka

#Mean Quotes #Rift Quotes #Care Quotes

“We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances”
“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”
“Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.”
“Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.”
“The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.”
“For some reason I believed that if you fell in love it was a guaranteed thing that your path would cross with his, and I never wondered how if would feel to fall in love with a man whose future just couldn't include you.”

Source : Laura Pritchett (2011). “Sky Bridge: A Novel”, p.158, Milkweed Editions
“Gerard Butler is like a big kid; he's so nice.”

Source : "Meet Newcomer (and Flipped Star!) Madeline Carroll". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 31, 2010.
“The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position...”

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