Ramona Ausubel Quotes

#1. Aniimal Town:~) The place where Dreams & Adventures come true!

Aniimal Town

#2. You must have come from very far down," Alice says to the fish, "to have your own lantern.

Ramona Ausubel

#3. A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.

Robert F. Kennedy

#4. Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives?

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#5. The only true thing is what's in front of you right now.

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#6. Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

Janet Evanovich

#7. Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

Kij Johnson

#8. Why is it that the less on has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. The children always needed Fern to be a different kind of mother than she had been the week before. They exhausted her and she longed for a break and then she missed them acutely the moment they were out of sight - that was the truth of motherhood.

Ramona Ausubel

#10. Perhaps fate is an answer from God ... or perhaps fate is nothing more than an accident - two ships lost in the dark, running aground on the same windward beach.

Ramona Ausubel

#11. How could you have love without heart?

John Chu

#12. There should be a word for this happiness, she thought. The happiness of nothing extra.

Ramona Ausubel

#13. This dinosaur skeleton was a body plus time. They all were. The question was what they wanted to do and who they wanted to love in the years when muscle and skin still covered them.

Ramona Ausubel

#14. unless one bought her way out of it, motherhood was a small room with high walls and no door.

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#15. You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.

Ramona Ausubel

#16. Time was a dazzling lie, a magician worth a bird in his hat. The truth, I felt certain, was that everything happened at once. How old was I? I was every age at the same time. All the days of our lives were today.

Ramona Ausubel

#17. Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

David Garrick

#18. Life is effortful," said Mac. "That's the way it's supposed to be. It's good to have work to do.

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#19. A person who wants to believe lives in a world full of proof.

Ramona Ausubel

#20. Frasier (Responding to the suggestion that he undertake the difficult work of closure in a relationship): "What you just said about my success made a lot of sense. I tuned you out after that.

Frasier Crane

#21. They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.

Rebecca Solnit

#22. Once upon a time, tomorrow was the first day of the world.

Ramona Ausubel

#23. The moment we were in was a hinge - the past swung on one side, the future on the other.

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#24. How furiously she loved them and how heavy it was to carry that quantity of love, how perilous to care for those delicate bodies in the spinning world.

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#25. Nothing was more terrifying than what families could do to each other.

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#26. This was a season of worry and joy living side by side in Fern. They did not cancel each other out or blend to create a soft grey. Love could not temper fear and fear could not temper love.

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#27. It doesn't always make sense, how you go about loving someone. Sometimes loving means gathering them back, sometimes it means sending them away.

Ramona Ausubel

#28. The process of living is to surrender what, for a few glimmering days or years, you have been allowed to hold. But there is no such place as gone.

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#29. In hock to the excitements and commercial advantages of rage, the news cruelly ignores the project of consolation.

Alain De Botton

#30. Whatever you do, don't be another brick in the wall!

Hank Moody

#31. For heartsickness of the unending variety, befriend a dove. Do not catch it, not even so that you can set it free. Just get down on the ground with bread crumbs on your chest and wait for it to find you interesting.

Ramona Ausubel

#32. Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.

George Vecsey

#33. He looked like someone trying to sell something for less than it was worth.

Ramona Ausubel

#34. It might still drown you, but love got deeper with time.

Ramona Ausubel

#35. Am I really going to die?" Cimil's face lit up with shock. "Jeez. What kind of goddess do you think I am? We just met, and I only kill people I know.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#36. The truest luxury of long-term wealth was that no one in the family thought about money anymore.

Ramona Ausubel