"He pauses when he finishes undoing the last button, then closes his eyes. I can see the pain slashed across his face, and the sight tears at me. The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see."

-- Marie Lu

#Pain Quotes #Eye Quotes #Boys Quotes

“What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.”

Source : "Bush's drugs boss is unfit for office, say civil rights groups" Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.
“I want to touch people's lives, and bring them along with me.”
“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”

Source : "Book of Humorous Quotations" edited by Connie Robertson, (p. 83), 1998.
“I think it was Mark Twain who said, â€œGet your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.”

Source : Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books
“Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.”
“No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.”
“As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.”
“The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.”

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