Mary E. Pearson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.”
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“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”
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“What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.”
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“Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.”
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“I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.”
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“... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up”
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“There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.”
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“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .”
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“There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.”
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“But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way.”
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“Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?”
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“He believes me. But that is nothing new. He always did because I was a rule follower. I played by the rules he understood. But there are new rules now, ones he doesn't know yet. He'll learn. Just as I'm learning.”
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“When is a cell finally too small to hold our essence?”
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“How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul?”
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“When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.”
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“It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.”
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“I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.”
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“You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.”
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“It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.”
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“Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky,”
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“On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly beat -sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, an artist, a scribbler - sometimes the beat is changed one person at a time.”
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“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.”
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“Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.”
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“The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.”
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“Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.”
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“Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.”
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“Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.”
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“Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.”
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“We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.”
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