Cristina Garcia quotes
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“Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.”
-- Cristina GarciaSource : Cristina Garcia (2009). “I Wanna Be Your Shoebox”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
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“You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.”
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“Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses.”
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“I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.”
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“You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.”
-- Cristina Garcia
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“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”
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Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
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“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.”
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“I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.”
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“Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.”
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“Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?”
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