"She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold or scared, someone will come and care for me - and how that absence could warp you so that you'd lash out at the people you loved, driving them away when all you wanted to do was pull them closer."

-- Jennifer Weiner

#Baby Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“If you are physically ready to play, it's a matter of confidence. Your confidence goes down when you lose games, when shots are not going in.”
“Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.”
“I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.”
“Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.”
“The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.”
“When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?”
“The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.”

Source : Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.4, New York Review of Books
“I like wearing my wedding ring, it's nice.”

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