“We do not choose what happens to us. We can only choose what we do after. What we do now. We can only choose to keep going.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Maybe that's why we used to get along so well - we both enjoyed lounging around in our own chaos.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“And we clung to each other like we were drowning because, in a way, we were.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Sea, give me a break. It's always been you.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“They do not disappear when they die. They leave us their strength.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“He looked at me like I just told him the earth was flat and I had definitive proof.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Yeah, I do. Sometimes I worry my memories will fade without them.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Reflecting your current reality. Dreams are fasinating, aren't they? Portholes into the subconscious.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Of course,' Spider said. 'I'd bring you Popsicles and cheesy celebrity magazines.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.”
― Kimberly Derting, quote from The Pledge
“Before that summer, I had many times heard long-winded Baptist preachers take ten minutes to pray over card tables of potato salad and fried chicken at church picnics, but the way those sweating, red-faced men sat around on stacked pallets of lumber gulping oysters taught me most of what I knew about simple gladness.”
― Mary Karr, quote from The Liars' Club
“The word "religion" comes from the Latin for "binding together," to connect that which has been sundered apart. It's a very interesting concept. And in this sense of seeking the deepest interrelations among things that superficially appear to be sundered, the objectives of religion and science, I believe, are identical or very nearly so. But the question has to do with the reliability of the truths claimed by the two fields and the methods of approach.”
― Carl Sagan, quote from The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
“Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate.”
― quote from Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, quote from Dairy Queen
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