"Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Stars Quotes #Dark Quotes #Moon Quotes

“We are the choices we make.”

Source : "The Knife of Never Letting Go". Book by Patrick Ness, www.theguardian.com. 2008.
“Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.”
“When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit.”
“Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.”
“Everybody I hang with - the ranchers, the farmers, the cops, the teachers, the plumbers, everybody I hang with - they've got an alarm clock. They get up, they put their heart and their soul into being the very best that they can be. They want to be an asset to their families and their neighborhood. They want to be productive members of society.”
“It's sort of like in the movie The Karate Kid when Daniel said he needed Mr. Miyagi. And Mr. Miyagi gave him that confidence to believe he really didn't. These guys think they really need me right now, but they don't. When I come back, we'll all need each other to step up our games and do what needs to be done.”
“I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.”
“I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.”

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