“If we don't learn the art of patience and trust, we will end up assuming that we are a failure.”
― Abhishek Krishnan, quote from Clouds Don't Pass
“When I go back to God after my life, I want to make sure I go back with absolutely no talent and tell him, "I used up everything you gave me.”
― Abhishek Krishnan, quote from Clouds Don't Pass
“There is never a problem without a solution. It's just that you don't see it because fear, insecurity and lack of passion make you blind.”
― Abhishek Krishnan, quote from Clouds Don't Pass
“May be that is how life is. Clouds, whether bright or dark, they just keep passing. The duration they stay with us depends on whether the circumstance around us is breezy, windy or stormy.”
― Abhishek Krishnan, quote from Clouds Don't Pass
“There is only one 'best'. The others are just 'good' & 'better'. But 'the best' changes with time & hence, 'the best' is always yet to come.”
― Abhishek Krishnan, quote from Clouds Don't Pass
“The people who are scared of ghosts are the ones who discuss most about them.”
― Abhishek Krishnan, quote from Clouds Don't Pass
“If we don't do what we are passionate about, work would be more like a mere wait for the subsequent month's salary.”
― Abhishek Krishnan, quote from Clouds Don't Pass
“I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.”
― Anita Shreve, quote from Light on Snow
“I told him that my cat was on fire and he didn’t even hear me! On fire, Victoria! And he didn’t care!”
“Aud, that is so fucking twisted that I don’t even know where to start.”
“Okay, I know, but it had to be drastic.”
“That’s not drastic, that’s sadistic. You’ve got your –tics mixed up.”
“Will you please focus on the issue at hand? Evan doesn’t listen to what I’m saying!”
“And this is news?”
“Should I break up with him?”
“Do you want to break up with him?”
“I don’t know. Distract me from feeling miserable.”
“Umm… ummm… I got new shoes.”
“Woo.”
“Wanna come over and try them on?”
“I’ll be there in ten minutes.”
― Robin Benway, quote from Audrey, Wait!
“There is a bus station in Henry, but it isn't on Main Street. It's one block north - the town fathers hadn't wanted all the additional traffic. The station lost one-third of its roof to a tornado fifteen years ago. In the same summer, a bottle rocket brought the gift of fire to its restrooms. The damage has never been repaired, but the town council makes sure that the building is painted fresh every other year, and always the color of a swimming pool. There is never graffiti. Vandals would have to drive more than twenty miles to buy the spray paint.
Every once in a long while, a bus creeps into town and eases to a stop beside the mostly roofed, bright aqua station with the charred bathrooms. Henry is always glad to see a bus. Such treats are rare.”
― N.D. Wilson, quote from 100 Cupboards
“Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from Existentialism Is a Humanism
“ A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Bed of Roses
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