"It was hard to reassure grown-ups when you weren't certain yourself what you were feeling and thinkingâ€”when thoughts dissolved before you could name them."

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Source : Paula Fox (2016). “The Village by the Sea”, p.35, Open Road Media

Paula Fox

#Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Be as good to yourself as you are to those you love.”
“I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.”
“I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.”
“Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.”
“When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.”
“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”
“She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)”
“You've got to play with pride and guts.”

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