"It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesnt happen very often."

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Source : Amy Bloom (2010). “Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction”, p.223, Random House

Amy Bloom

#Children Quotes #Moving Quotes #Heart Quotes

“The thing is, if people get it right away, I just don't think you're making art. I think you're making something they're comfortable with. You have to challenge people. You know, it has to be new. It has to be something they haven't seen before. Just bring them something they haven't seen before. They aren't going to love it right away because they haven't seen it before. So they have to take a minute, you know?”
“I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.”
“I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!”
“Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.”
“Tales of heroes end in bliss.”
“I like to get something that is impossible to verbally order. Sometimes it's something the person is not even conscious of, and it's something you could never ask of them specifically. It's just there.”
“A good life is a collection of happy memories.”
“I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.”

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