How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
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Robert Browning
If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them...
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Cassandra Clare
Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.
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Shannon L. Alder
The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
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Mike Norton
In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost .. . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.
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Col. Thomas Aspinwall
More Quotes By Amanda Quick
When you are rich and powerful, no one will challenge you to your face or give you a chance to explain yourself. All the whispers are behind your back. You are left with no means of clearing your own name. And after a while you...
I must say, Graystone, you are surviving married life very nicely." Peter helped himself to claret from the decanter that had been set out in the library." Thank you, Sheldrake. I flatter myself that not every man could survive being married to Augusta.
I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.
She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan.
In my experience there are only a handful of reasons for murder.... Jealousy, vengeance, greed, fear and pleasure.... Some killers enjoy the kill.... For them it is a great game, and for the most part they are the ones I hunt.
