"I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt."

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Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.108, Granta Books

A.M. Homes

#Feelings Quotes #Faces Quotes #My Family Quotes

“You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.”
“People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.”
“No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!”
“Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around you were dazzled by impressions, emotions, and tended to miss the finer points. In middle age you have the equipment to see the subtleties you missed before and you savor it more slowly.”
“I am dead because I have no desire, I have no desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give; Trying to give, we see that we have nothing; Seeing that we have nothing, we try to give ourselves, Trying to give ourselves, we see that we are nothing, Seeing that we are nothing, we desire to become, Desiring to become, we live.”
“Sometimes I amaze even myself.”
“Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and this is our situation, frustrated , but on the other part of world (West) ,they are enjoying in party and drinking liquor (white liquid) but their situation is that, successful, I do not know that the problem relates to the type of liquid or the way of drinking!!”
“My strong game was ping pong. Relentless... steady.”

Source : "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with … Marv Albert". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. June 12, 2011.

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