“nothing can wear you out like caring about people”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“The difference is that was then, this is now.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“You can't say, 'This is just a stage' when its important to people what they're feeling. Maybe he'll outgrow it someday but right now it's important.”
― S.E. Hinton, quote from That Was Then, This Is Now
“[T]hese leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way reflects the possible existence of a set of values or ethical laws that supersedes their own dominion.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, quote from The Garden of Rama
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from Lady Windermere's Fan
“Your authority as a believer comes from Jesus’s triumph over the enemy.”
― Pedro Okoro, quote from The Ultimate Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Learn to Fight from Victory, Not for Victory!
“I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?”
― Ahdaf Soueif, quote from The Map of Love
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