"My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around."

-- Anne Lamott

#Mother Quotes #Flower Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Gwen?" "Yes." "You know why we have to be together, don't you?" "..." "I'm your selkie.”

Source : Terri Farley (2010). “Seven Tears into the Sea”, p.194, Simon and Schuster
“As a rule, I do not approve of messing around with coffee. No sugar, no milk, no chocolate, hazelnuts, cinnamon, no nothing.... Just drink it black, the way God does”
“Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've got them, and I'm not ashamed to use 'em. Having a face Adonis would admire is one of the few advantages I've been given in life, and I use it to it's full potential whether it's for good or evil.”
“I â€” I mean," Kate stumbled on, "that with us there is a time past and time present, and time future, and with your gods perhaps there is time forever; but God in Himself has the whole of it, all times at once. It would be true to say that He came into our world and died here, in a time and a place; but it would also be true to say that in His eternity it is always That Place and That Time â€” here â€” and at this moment â€” and the power He had then, He can give to us now, as much as He did to those who saw and touched Him when He was alive on the earth.”
“I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.”
“How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)”
“People have this impression that I'm this crazy Christian, but I'm really balanced.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.”

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