Andrea Brillantes Quotes

#1. For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

Alison Lohman

#2. In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Lucille Ball

#3. Avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. bought two quarts of beer for breakfast.

John Steinbeck

#5. When a man solved his problems by punching them, books were often a foreign thing.

Brian McClellan

#6. I know you ...
That you hold inside
Vast possibilities and dreams
And limitless love.

Ilchi Lee

#7. You allow the world to think you're a heartless murderer," I tell him. "And you're not."
He laughs, once; his eyebrows lifting in surprise. "No," he says. "I'm afraid I'm just the regular kind of murderer.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. Ben smiled for the first time all afternoon. It was nice to see. When he deigned to flash his pearly whites, Ben went from sullen boy to charming young man. I much preferred the latter.

Kathy Reichs

#9. Being attractive should have nothing to do with being accepted. It is what is inside a person that matters,

Julie Garwood

#10. Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

Byron Katie

#11. My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.

Vandana Shiva

#12. The best that a parent can be ... A demonstrator ... A consistent, constant demonstrator of being in your own Vortex.

Esther Hicks