“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell
“Parents think the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is cancer. They’re wrong; the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is mental illness.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell
“Kendinize ait parçalar vardır, sayısız parçalar, bunları bir kez feda ederseniz bir daha asla yerine koyamazsınız.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell
“I want to cry but I don’t. I don’t. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell
“All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’?” “Anna Karenina.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell
“Being at the easternmost edge of the time zone, Massachusetts has one of the first sunrises in the country.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell
“A child’s bonds with his or her mother are extremely powerful, so any negativity in the mother is being communicated to the child.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell
“Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. “So it would seem,” D.D.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell
“Panicked, she dropped the suitcase and started edging away. In her haste she caught the backs of her knees on the arm of the sofa, lost her balance and landed flat on her back on the cushions.
His eyes gleaming with amusement, Nick looked at the delectable beauty sprawled invitingly across the sofa. "I'm flattered,honey, but I'd like something to eat first.What are you serving-besides baked shoes?”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Double Standards
“Say a king wishes to support a standing army of fifty thousand men. Under ancient or medieval conditions, feeding such a force was an enormous problem—unless they were on the march, one would need to employ almost as many men and animals just to locate, acquire, and transport the necessary provisions. On the other hand, if one simply hands out coins to the soldiers and then demands that every family in the kingdom was obliged to pay one of those coins back to you, one would, in one blow, turn one's entire national economy into a vast machine for the provisioning of soldiers, since now every family, in order to get their hands on the coins, must find some way to contribute to the general effort to provide soldiers with things they want. Markets are brought into existence as a side effect.”
― David Graeber, quote from Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“You know what they say: If at first you don't succeed, f**k it.”
― Jon Stewart, quote from America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
“Logan had been there earlier and refused to leave, but Mason made him go. He wanted alone time with me when I woke. He said he pulled Boyfriend Rank. It would've been nice to see Logan, but I understood.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“..., pero la idea de no regresar jamás a mi casa pesaba más que la posibilidad de viajar.”
― Gennifer Albin, quote from Crewel
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