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As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitutde, but compassion holding its breath. Edith Wharton
The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles. Dean Koontz
Oprah Winfrey quote: "True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that..."
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience. Oprah Winfrey
It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped. Kim Stanley Robinson
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. ..."
But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. Dorothy L. Sayers
Helen Keller quote: "if you ca dream it, you can do it"
if you ca dream it, you can do it Helen Keller
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted. Fernando Pessoa
Philip K. Dick quote: "Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then."
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. Philip K. Dick
The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life. George Eliot
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Anything which is physically possible can always be made..."
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. Robert A. Heinlein
These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing. Isaac Asimov
So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encouragingly. “I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning…won’t help in my case,” says Peeta. “Why ever not?” says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “Because…because…she came here with me. Suzanne Collins
Every death even the cruelest deathdrowns in the total indifference of Nature. Nature herself would watch unmovedif we destroyed the entire human race. I hate Naturethis passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-facethat can bear everythingthis goads us to greater and greater acts Peter Weiss
Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced! R. A. Salvatore
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things. Maurice Sendak

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