"It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Girl Quotes #Suicide Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.”
“Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there.”
“If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.”
“All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.”
“I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.”

Source : "Iran opposition leader Mousavi 'ready to die' for reform" by Robert Tait, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.
“If it came down to that, I'd protect you in a heartbeat.”
“Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.”
“The traveling and adventure always lift my spirits soaring with exhilaration.”

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