Elizabeth Hay quotes
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“She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.”
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“And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.”
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“You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.”
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“A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.”
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“How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have their own morality and nothing else matters.”
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“We look so very different from the way we sound. It’s a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when you’re forced to wonder how the rest of you comes across if you sound nothing like the way you think you sound. You feel dislodged from the old shoe of yourself.”
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“Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk.”
-- Elizabeth Hay
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“You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.”
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“Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.”
Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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Source : In Observer 17 Aug. 1986
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“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
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Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.408, Simon and Schuster
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“When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.”
Source : "Song: 'When you love someone'". 2013.
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