“at some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”
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“He and I had been talking about jazz (which is to say that he had been talking about jazz, and I had been listening to him talk about jazz, because that is how you talk to a man about jazz)...”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives”
― Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
― Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
“most marriages are neither heavenly nor hellish, but vaguely purgatorial.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
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