“there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life. Memories and loves, children and families. Every moment of life, pressing in”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“I can't stop thinking about dying the way humans do it. Imagine! If at any moment, you could just stop existing. How different everything would be.." They don't stop existing Lenia said...They have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fight so hard to stay alive. I think it's so beautiful. Imagine: being that fragile, that permanent.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“Margrethe watched them paralyzed by the intensity of the emotions moving through her. So much pain and euphoria, a sense that even though her own heart was broken, the world could contain such beauty and magic she almost could not bear it? What did her own pain matter, in the face of that?”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul,shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human’s life.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“That they have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fought so hard to stay alive.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“How can they be that poor, when our kingdom is so rich?”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
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“Oh! I’m going to do good things for my child. Balony! That’s all ego. Just work on yourself And: Everytime you work on yourself, you get calmer you hear more you sense more you are more you’re more present What are you offering a child? not a set of social roles passing in the night. . . . youre offering a child here and now — ness The treasure of consciousness The treasure of awareness.”
― Ram Dass, quote from Be Here Now
“Η αλήθεια όμως είναι ότι δεν είχα καταλάβει πόση δύναμη έκρυβε μέσα της. Και αφού η εκτίμησή μου για κείνη ήταν τόσο λανθασμένη, αναρωτιέμαι τώρα πόσο συχνά και η εκτίμησή μου για τον εαυτό μου ήταν τελείως λάθος. Και πόσο λανθασμένη μπορεί να ήταν η δική της εκτίμηση για τη μητέρα της, και η δική του για τον πατέρα του· σε τι βαθμό, τελικά, η οικογενειακή ζωή είναι ένα πελώριο πλέγμα παρεξηγήσεων, μια χρωματισμένη και ρετουσαρισμένη οικογενειακή φωτογραφία, μια ακριβής αναπαράσταση γεγονότων της ζωής που το μόνο που δεν περιλαμβάνει είναι η ουσιαστική αλήθεια.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from One True Thing
“...that in this town prostitutes may give sewing lessons to ladies of the church, pirates my be consulted for their opinions on seaworth by shipbuilders, Christians and Jews may stroll together on a Sunday, and Indians my play dice games with leatherstockings, but let one silver piece fall in a crack between two members of the same profession and it's bloody war.”
― Robert R. McCammon, quote from The Queen of Bedlam
“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
“Sprawled, bloody, holding the pistol, he looked like a police photograph of a suicide. Dart went back to his chair and picked up the Smith and Wesson. Five minutes passed like a year.”
― Mal Peet, quote from Tamar
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