"You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . ."

-- Alex Flinn

#Children Quotes #Mean Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be â€˜desertâ€™), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happenâ€¦”
“Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.”
“The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.”
“Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.”
“Itâ€™s difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognize you from your work, or whether itâ€™s just because youâ€™re six foot three and have the eyebrows of Satan.”
“One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy”

Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.40, Conari Press
“As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.”

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