"Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Country Quotes #Trying Quotes #Borders Quotes

“I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things Iâ€™d done before.”

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway
“No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.”
“Like it or not, I'm the new ***** Aquaman buddy.”
“It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.”
“It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.”
“When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.”
“For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.”

Source : Amy Plum (2011). “Die For Me: Number 1 in series”, p.130, Hachette UK

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