“Guilt. A painful, lonely feeling. It seeps into your pores slowly as you go through life day by day. Like a disease, it blackens your heart with thoughts and memories of what you did, or in my case, what you didn’t do.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Winston Churchill once said, 'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Sweetie, they're your feelings, so they can't be wrong. It's what you do with them that makes all the difference, but you have the right to feel what you feel.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Minutes — that's all it takes to change your entire life. How do you deal with that? Not”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“You'll always carry these memories in your heart, baby. As for tomorrow, you’ll get through it. We all will, and then we’ll get through the next day and the one after that. This whole town will; minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. We will keep going.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“But in reality...I excused myself and then stood in the hallway so I could hear every last word.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. You will keep going’,”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“The Ice Shack is gone, and in its place is a blood red sky with a dark funnel cloud cutting its way to her.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Tornado Safety Tip: If you can't get to safety, lie flat and face-down on low ground, and protect the back of your head with your arms.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Their faces are black and white, men, women and children, young and old. Death doesn’t discriminate.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Honey, it's Tanya. She didn't make it, sweetie,”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Minutes—that’s all it takes to change your entire life.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“recovered. Four from the group at the”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“One damn moment. That’s all it takes to change our lives,”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“I have endured, and now I am ready to conquer.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“My good Japp, is it possible that you throw the mud in my eyes? I know well enough that it is the Chinaman you suspect. But you are so artful. You want me to help you—and yet you drag the red kipper across the trail.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Big Four
“We never learn anything, never in the world, and in spite of all the history books written. They’re just the way we plead or ague with ourselves about it, but it’s only light from the outside that we’re supposed to take inside. If we can. There’s a regular warehouse of fine suggestions and if we’re not better it isn’t because there aren’t plenty of marvelous and true ideas to draw on, but because our vanity weighs more than all of them put together.”
― Saul Bellow, quote from The Adventures of Augie March
“The romantic reunion and thank-you-for-saving-my-life sex would have to wait until later.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Tangled Threads
“Rather than sleep, Tibbets crawled through the thirty-foot tunnel to chat
with the waist crew, wondering if they knew what they were carrying. "A
chemist's nightmare," the tail gunner, Robert Caron, guessed, then "a
physicist's nightmare." "Not exactly," Tibbets hedged. Tibbets was leaving
by the time Caron put two and two together:
'Tibbets stayed a little longer, and then started to crawl forward up the tunnel. I remembered something else, and just as the last of the Old Man was disappearing, I sort of tugged at his foot, which was still showing. He came sliding back in a hurry, thinking maybe
something was wrong. "What's the matter?"
I looked at him and said, "Colonel, are we splitting atoms today?"
This time he gave me a really funny look, and said, "That's about it.”
― Richard Rhodes, quote from The Making of the Atomic Bomb
“I had severe control freak tendencies, and when I had no control—I freaked out.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Demon Kissed
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