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“We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.”
― Lift
― Lift
“There is a place deep, deep inside every person that is hidden and hard to find. If things get bad enough and life gets too hard, though, some people will go to that place and never come back from it. Certainly, all outward appearances will suggest otherwise. They will look as they always did. They may even act somewhat like their old selves, but the trut is, the real truth is that they are hiding in this place deep inside where no one can touch or hurt them anymore.”
― The Girl Who Could Fly
― The Girl Who Could Fly
“That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. ”
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“And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“My ma told me that there isn't anything in this life worth having that comes easy. She told me that every road I walk down's gonna have a price. But what she didn't tell me and what I learned since I've been here is that if you don't choose the road you're gonna walk, sooner or later someone else'll do that choosing for you.”
― The Girl Who Could Fly
― The Girl Who Could Fly
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