Page 89 Quotes

“It hurts for a moment. It really does. It literally hurts. Your chest starts to hurt. You get choked up. But you've moved on to where you can put it behind you. But that doesn't mean you forget. Moving on is not forgetting.”
― Andrew Forsthoefel, Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time

“Luke concurred heartily in these sentiments, and proceeded to advance by an easy transition to a further profound statement that troubles never come singly.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“As he disappeared, the eyes of Venner and Ringle, as if they were iron bars, moved to contain Hugh.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume the correct attitude to her unchosen fate. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“During one of their first times together, Franz announced to her, in an oddly emphatic way, “Sabina, you are a woman.” She could not understand why he accentuated the obvious with the solemnity of a Columbus who has just sighted land. Not until later did she understand that the word “woman,” on which he had placed such uncommon emphasis, did not, in his eyes, signify one of the two human sexes; it represented a value. Not every woman was worthy of being called a woman.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being