“If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“Nobody gets to pick what life gives them”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“Life went on whether people participated in it or not”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“I'll never take it for granted again. I'll always be grateful for every spring that comes along.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“You're going to live your life. You're going to honor him doing things you would have done if he'd never gotten sick and died”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“He doesn't teach you what to think, he teaches you how to think”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“He doesn't teach you what to think. He teaches you how to think.”
― Lurlene McDaniel, quote from Don't Die, My Love
“Real love is gritty. It sweats and waits, it causes you to hold your tongue when you want to scream obscenities in anger, and it causes many men to accomplish extraordinary feats.”
― quote from Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
“¡Nada en los lenguajes humanos, ninguna traducción del pensamiento hecha con ayuda de los colores, los mármoles, las palabras o los sonidos sabría expresar el nervio, la verdad, la finitud, lo súbito del pensamiento en el alma!”
― Honoré de Balzac, quote from The Wild Ass's Skin
“Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!”
― Laurence Sterne, quote from A Sentimental Journey
“ROSE: I been standing with you! I been right here with you, Troy. I got a life, too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don't you think I ever wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about me. Don't you think it ever crossed my mind to want to know other men? That I wanted to lay up somewhere and forget about my responsibilities? That I wanted someone to make me laugh so I could feel good? You not the only one who's got wants and needs. But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams...and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. And it didn't take me not eighteen years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn't never gonna bloom. But I held on to you. I held you tighter. You was my husband. I owed you everything I had. Every part of me I could find to give you. And upstairs in that room...with the darkness falling in on me...I gave everything I had to try and erase the doubt that you wasn't the fines man in the world. And wherever you was going...I wanted to be there with you. Cause you was my husband. Cause that's the only way I was gonna survive as your wife. You always taking about what you give...and what you don't have to give. But you take too. You take...and you don't even know nobody's giving!”
― August Wilson, quote from Fences
“All the beasts of Hell knew they couldn't stop me. I was the archangel Gabriel, the Preliator, and they knew that no matter how many times they killed, I always came back to kill them. No matter how much they frightened me, I remembered what Cadan had told me about the stories of me he had grown up hearing. Even demons feared something. The demonic reapers had nightmares of their own, stories they told one another to terrify, a legend that haunted them in their sleep. That was me. I was Hell's nightmare.”
― Courtney Allison Moulton, quote from Shadows in the Silence
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