"A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture."

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Barbara Kingsolver

#Good Life Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Throwing Quotes

“Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.”
“The wounded recognized the wounded.”
“Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.”
“Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.”
“It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.”
“Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.”
“I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.”
“Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.”

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