“You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry”
“Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that”
“Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away.”
“This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.”
“There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.”
“Sometimes good came out of hurt, compensation came out of pain. He gave with one hand, and He took with the other.”
“Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.”
“Don’t be so eager to judge, Suzette. You can’t tell how heavy somebody else’s load is just from looking.”
“The two women worked easily together, but I soon sensed that, though Belle was in charge of the kitchen, Mama Mae was in charge of Belle.”
“Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain’t over ‘til you both get your cookie.“ —ALEC BALDWIN”
“People judge you not only by the value you put on yourself…they judge you by the value you put on other things: your job, your work, even your competition.”
“It was in this situation that she penetrated as a vague shape into the existence of Thomas. Everything there appeared desolate and mournful. Deserted shores where deeper and deeper absences, abandoned by the eternally departed sea after a magnificent shipwreck, gradually decomposed. She passed through strange dead cities where, rather than petrified shapes, mummified circumstances, she found a necropolis of movements, silences, voids; she hurled herself against the extraordinary sonority of nothingness which is made of the reverse of sound, and before her spread forth wondrous falls, dreamless sleep, the fading away which buries the dead in a life of dream, the death by which every man, even the weakest spirit, becomes spirit itself.”
“I wish I’d never met the bastard known as destiny.”
“the chains that bound me for my entire life would effectively be removed. My shackles set aside, I would be free.”
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