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“I am sure one of those things we are here for is to make certain that those whom we love fall asleep each night assured of that love.”
― To Be Sung Underwater
― To Be Sung Underwater
“...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“All passion is childish. It's banal and naive. It's nothing we learn; it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to earth, but passion inhabits the universe.
That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands we risk. Our dignity. The puzzlement of others and their condescending, shaking heads”
― Britt-Marie Was Here
That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands we risk. Our dignity. The puzzlement of others and their condescending, shaking heads”
― Britt-Marie Was Here
“My dad used to say the best place to look for sympathy was somewhere between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― The Fruit of Stone
― The Fruit of Stone
“The only time you've failed is if you don't try once more.”
― And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
― And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
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