Hmong Mom Quotes

#1. Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

Will Self

#2. Eating plain toast will detonate her.
"I'll have some honey."
When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#3. What he carried with him, all he carried with him, was a lack, something like a lack of air, of proper behavior in his lungs, a difficulty that he supposed would go on forever.

Alice Munro

#4. Poor greedy one, wherever he runs
He's after food, and death is after him.
(Saadi)

Idries Shah

#5. You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

Adrian Rogers

#6. Immortals. Pains in the asses, every one of them.

Karen Marie Moning

#7. In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Robert Jordan

#8. What were you keeping me for, if not to use against your enemies?" His gaze softened. "Once, yes. Now I find myself in the alarming situation of fearing I may lose you again and caring.

Pippa DaCosta

#9. If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

Nachman Of Breslov

#10. I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.

Ariel Garten