"You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?"

-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Daughter Quotes #Suicide Quotes #Brother Quotes

“You are at enmity with yourself.”
“You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.”

Source : Robert Cormier (2013). “EIGHT PLUS ONE: STORIES”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.”
“Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.”
“My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio for an afternoon to make a record. Punk isn't a music that you think of as chance-based, but exigency has a lot to do with it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.147, Faber & Faber
“The good things in life are free, except for health care, and electricity.”
“There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera Martin (1998). “Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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