I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister Morgan? ‘Thought I was gettin’ away from all that. You know, the Tennessee Williams’ decadence, the Huey Long corruption, the brewin’ and simmerin’ violence. I actually found that I kind of missed it. Then, I found out it was all here, too, but without the charm. Jackson Burnett
Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can...
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Anne Michaels
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.
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Jennifer Aniston
I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and...
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Raymond Carver
I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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Lois Lowry
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can...
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Flannery OConnor
More Quotes By Jackson Burnett
He recognized it and knew it. In others–clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.
A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going...
The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe.
She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.
Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?
