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“It didn't feel like a season at the time; it felt like the rest of my life. That's how most seasons feel while you're living them, and then your surroundings transform just as you're getting settled in.”
― Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood
― Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood
“Unpleasant things are like the rain: sometimes they visit us, but there is no point in worrying about them while the sun shines.”
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“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”
― A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
― A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
“People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.”
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“They say saudade is unique to Portuguese, impossible to define in English. Nostalgia gets pretty close, but saudade is more complicated. It's the remnant of gratitude and bliss that something happened, but the simultaneous devastation that it has gone and will never happen again. It marries the feelings of happy wistfulness and poignant melancholy, anticipation, and hopelessness. it's universally understood by a cross-ocean culture with a constant feeling of absence, a yearning for the return of something now gone.”
― Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood
― Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood
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