Beloved Chapter 23 Quotes

#1. If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#2. Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.

Thomas A. Edison

#3. The scariest thing about drugs is the brink of it all: when you're on the verge of insanity but you think your actions sane. And you can't stop. You just can't stop.

Courtney Elizabeth Young

#4. I have a second-degree black belt in Okinawan kobudo weapons training.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#5. I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.

Daisy Ridley

#6. To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?

Rita Ora

#7. The finding that ME and CFS group had more functional limitations and more serious symptoms than those with MS [multiple sclerosis] provides additional evidence to the seriousness of ME and CFS.

Leonard A. Jason

#8. Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in darkness another is in daylight.While person dies another is born.

Margaret Leis HannaBrunhilde Maurer Barron Barron

#10. Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

#11. If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

Walter E. Williams

#12. Some general advice about writing:
WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.

Brian K. Vaughan

#13. It was a kind of sin, certainly, to forget - but it was not easy to remember, especially when names changed, languages changed. A century-old name held that century; when replaced, a hundred years were wiped out at one stroke. Amnesia set it; reality itself, being metamorphic, was affected.

Ninotchka Rosca

#14. When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.

Dinaw Mengestu

#15. But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

Plutarch