When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened. Christina Baker Kline
There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
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Tom Robbins
It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear:...
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Sarah Blake
You're the only man I know willing to jump from the top floor of a skyscraper, naked with an axe just to get the bad guy - Selena
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David Gallie
When you allow a third party to carry your thoughts and vision to the second party, always be prepared that the purpose or vision of your message will be lost in translation.
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ShahenshahHK
The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled.
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Darren Shan
More Quotes By Christina Baker Kline
People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...
I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on." ,
Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ...Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the air, and by the end of the song most of us are crying. I am too, though I still don't know what those stars are meant...
Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.
It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.
