"You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough."

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Source : Lisa Gardner (2010). “Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel”, p.87, Bantam

Lisa Gardner

#Parenting Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.”
“My mom had always wanted me to better myself. I wanted to better myself because of her. Now when the strikes started, I told her I was going to join the union and the whole movement. I told her I was going to work without pay. She said she was proud of me. (His eyes glisten. A long, long pause.) See, I told her I wanted to be with my people. If I were a company man, nobody would like me anymore. I had to belong to somebody and this was it right here.”
“Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.”
“The challenges some European economies have are such that it makes it very difficult for them. You have to go where the growth is.”

Source : Source: www.formula1.com
“The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.”
“You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.”
“I had no idea how much music and singing really means to people, and in my own tiny way to be a part of that is very humbling and very sweet, and and I feel very honored. ... I have a great appreciation for this, in every ways and a new understanding, and I'm just as amazed as anyone else.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"ysabellabravetalk #1", www.youtube.com. March 09, 2007.
“I know it is never a good idea to not be comfortable.”

Source : "BYT Interviews: Garance Dore". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 19, 2016.

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