"How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past."

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Source : Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road: Picador Classic”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

Jackie Kay

#Girl Quotes #Memories Quotes #Past Quotes

“Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?”
“One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.”

Source : Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.244, Macmillan
“You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.”
“It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.”
“America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.”
“I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.”
“Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.”
“I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous”

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