"But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person."

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Source : Olive Ann Burns (2007). “Cold Sassy Tree”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Olive Ann Burns

#Different Quotes #Alive Quotes #Homesickness Quotes

“Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.”
“religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do ...”
“Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.”
“When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I canâ€™t think of a higher honor for a writer.”
“Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.”
“There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what Americans want, he's not very engaged, but they don't like the results, his polling numbers are going down. Americans may be ambivalent and disengaged with the world, they don't want a President who is ambivalent and disengaged with the world.”

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“Iâ€™ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasnâ€™t eliminated anything yet.”

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