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“The confusing lesson whipped Frankie's anger into something she had never felt before. It was like an emotional meringue - the airy feeling of loneliness topped with the hard crisp of injustice. Ye...”
“Let the one before you not witness your inner fight;Keep your chaotic thoughts and emotions tight.For now, it is your soul that I test,Which is where yourself you manifest.Its high time you become ...”
“She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or conde...”
“Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.”
“Too many words left unsaid, instead of everything could come at once and break you all for once.”
“I've a long time trying to lovea brother whose only way of touching me is pain.A long time escaping into music.Practice, lessons, rehearsals that protect mefrom the hurting parts of life.I've been ...”
“What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.”
“I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a m...”
“I still loved Marc desperately and couldnt imagine life without him. Jace wassomething else. Something I could feel but couldnt articulate. Something I wanted, and hadnt been able to resist in my g...”
“If this is Heaven, I am in big trouble.”
“Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.”
“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore”
“Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.”
“Either you take a path, RIGHT or LEFT, and if it was a mistake, turn back and take the other path, because your are the one who can change it.”
“To whomever is writing this book, what do you want from me? I need to know my calling. Why was I chosen? Why not Lee? Why not Susan March? Why me? What is my purpose? Please let it be more than to ...”
“You are at once both the quite and the confusion of my heart.”
“In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.”
“We are confusing making progress with eradicating the larger problem.”
“Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.”
“Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ....."As distance always doesn't ensure solutions”