"That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say."

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Sarah Dessen

#Grief Quotes #Grieving Quotes #Language Quotes

“North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.”
“Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.”
“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”
“When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.”
“When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.”
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...”
“O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.”
“We do have a love fest [at home]. It's like, 'I'm making you a cupcake.' Then it's like, 'Well, I made you a cake.' And it's like, 'Well I made you a cake with a cupcake on top and candles.'”

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