"Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us."

-- Jodi Picoult

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Grief Quotes

“Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.”
“My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I do not find that I feel myself to be any different as an English subject than as an American. I have not the vote in either place, so I am not a citizen of either, and have no call to be patriotic. In fact, I do not see how women can ever feel like anything but aliens in whatever country they may live, for they have no part or lot in any, except the part and lot of being taxed and legislated for by men.”
“I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ***** off to get out of it as soon as possible.”
“Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.”

Source : George Oppen (2008). “New Collected Poems”, p.193, New Directions Publishing
“She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.”
“Money is just a way of keeping score.”

Source : "Why the politics of envy are keenest among the very rich" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2013.
“Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.”

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