“Sometimes I wonder why words can't actually make us bleed.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“I always thought saying sorry was more about alleviating
guilt, that apologies were designed for the mouth, not for
the ears.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“We all screw up. We all wish we were stronger than we are, and not one of us will get through this life without regret.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“It's weird when someone gets you understands what you would never say not even to yourself.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“But I’m not the one digging her grave; I didn’t open her hole in the earth when I drove away that night or when I couldn’t make her come with us. My dad dug it years ago; he forced her to lie down in it and kept her there by fear and beatings. And when she tried to get out, he stomped her back in. She has been lying there for twenty-five years. Her muscles have atrophied, her joints have stiffened, and she can’t see anything except him and the tight little space she calls home. I don’t know how she’ll get out; I can tug and pull and yank, but it won’t make any difference. She was right: she’s gotta solve it her own way.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“You think I’m sixteen, so I don’t know what love is, right?”
She shakes her head, sad smile on again. “Sometimes I wonder if that’s the only time we really get to love someone completely. Without fear. After that first big breakup, we keep ourselves a little more protected, a little more hidden.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“This is why they say you should look before you leap. They say a lot of things. Carpe diem. Even platitudes contradict each other. Man, this has to be the longest fall ever if I have the time to think all this.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“Finally, Jace suspects it's a bad sign that he is referring to himself in the third person.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“The sky is freckled with stars.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“I don't have to agree with her to love her.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“Words are flowing through my brain like logs down a river.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“I didn't know that an apology could actually help; I always though saying sorry was more about alleviating guilt, that apologies were designed for the mouth, not for the ears.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“Isn't it too convenient just to forgive yourself, let yourself off the hook? What will keep you from doing it again, then?”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
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“White liberals, instead of comparing what has happened to the black family since the liberal welfare state policies of the 1960s were put into practice, compare black families to white families and conclude that the higher rates of broken homes and unwed motherhood among blacks are due to “a legacy of slavery.” But why the large-scale disintegration of the black family should have begun a hundred years after slavery is left unexplained. Whatever the situation of the black family relative to the white family, in the past or the present, it is clear that broken homes were far more common among blacks at the end of the twentieth century than they were in the middle of that century or at the beginning of that century —even though blacks at the beginning of the twentieth century were just one generation out of slavery. The widespread and casual abandonment of their children, and of the women who bore them, by black fathers in the ghettos of the late twentieth century was in fact a painfully ironic contrast with what had happened in the immediate aftermath of slavery a hundred years earlier, when observers in the South reported desperate efforts of freed blacks to find family members who had been separated from them during the era of slavery.”
― Thomas Sowell, quote from Black Rednecks and White Liberals
“I’ll be your voice when you can’t speak.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Soul
“While Steve cooked dinner, I sat at one end of the sofa. Rosie lay coiled at the other. I eyed her suspiciously. She eyed me the same way, both of us hoping that we each didn’t just suddenly fling ourselves at the other in attack.”
― Terri Irwin, quote from Steve & Me
“If I had been in charge of reorganizing the government’s security agencies into a homeland defense organization, I would have divided the responsibilities into two agencies: The Bureau of What the Fuck Was That? and The Department of What the Fuck Are We Gonna Do Now?”
― George Carlin, quote from When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“Did you love Paul Ivory?"
"Yes."
"I suppose it ended badly."
"Yes."
"You must have been very unhappy."
"I died, and Adam resurrected me.”
― Shirley Hazzard, quote from The Transit of Venus
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