"Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say about you. And coming here, despite your parents, says a lot to them- and me. And they're Americans first. They don't see you as the enemy. They see you as a person."

-- Jamie Ford

#Mean Quotes #Parent Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything”
“But once you describe something, you destroy it.”

Source : Barry Webster (2012). “The Lava in My Bones”, p.115, arsenal pulp press
“Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.”
“But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.”
“Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most privileged group of people in the world, the creditor-rentier class of the First World and their junior partners in the Third.”
“Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2005). “Do You Come Here Often?”, p.261, Simon and Schuster
“Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.”
“I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.”

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