"If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself."

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Source : Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

Peter HÃ¸eg

#Support Quotes #Want Quotes

“Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.”

Source : 'A Memory'
“He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.”
“I am not a sample size, and I am okay with that. I'm good with who I am. I like to accentuate the positive. My waist is something I love to show off. I'm also happy that more and more women are embracing who they are, because everybody's different. You don't have to be a size 0 to be pretty. You just have to be comfortable with who you are.”
“Much of the writing I do about the female body is to remind women, myself included, that they make life and they make death. That strikes me as a far more powerful stance than the weak lies told about mothering.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.”
“Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.”
“At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)”
“While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.”

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