“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“When it comes to love, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“When it comes to love, there is the timeworn caution that the very qualities you fall hardest for may be those you grow to despise. With Stavros, she wonders if the opposite might hold true: that this quality she nearly fears - his aversion to sanctifying the past - is something for which she will someday be grateful.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“... we're all alive the day before we die ... but, how alive is another question.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“We’re all alive the day before we die.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“She loved the dogs as you’re supposed to love dogs: consistently”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Mind what you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved. As”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“feel as if I’m visiting home in a dream, where everything yet nothing is the way it should be, where the best of what you have and what you wish for are briefly, tantalizingly united. Tealing”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“To love me, my family does not need to understand me.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
Julia Glass
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“The Tetris Effect—When our brains get stuck in a pattern that focuses on stress, negativity, and failure, we set ourselves up to fail. This principle teaches us how to retrain our brains to spot patterns of possibility, so we can see—and seize—opportunity wherever we look.”
― Shawn Achor, quote from The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
“If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.”
― Gregg Olsen, quote from Envy
“The economics of permanence implies a profound reorientation of science and technology, which have to open their doors to wisdom and, in fact, have to incorporate wisdom into their very structure... Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful.”
― Ernst F. Schumacher, quote from Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“How come she couldn't have a nice supernatural life like the girls on Charmed or even Buffy? They all had friends. Even on Supernatural, the boys had each other. What did she have? Nothing, but one damed traitor after another.”
― Caroline Hanson, quote from Love Is Mortal
“None of us is delicate enough to touch anyone else without hurting them a little bit.”
― M. Molly Backes, quote from The Princesses of Iowa
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