Edward Bloor quotes
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“You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.”
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“I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about”
-- Edward BloorSource : Edward Bloor (2007). “Taken”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.”
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“Remember that, lad, if you never remember anything else. We all touch each other's lives, for better or for worse. So say the things you have to say to people while you still have the chance.”
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“But be careful about the parts you agree to play...You never know when one is going to stick.”
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“History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.”
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“Now you, as a young person, may have no faith in your country, or in your church, or in your family. But you can still have faith in an ideal. If you have an ideal in front of you, you will never get lost on the journey of life. It is, after all, the journey that matters.”
-- Edward BloorSource : Edward Bloor (2007). “Crusader”, p.361, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can’t. Or won’t.”
-- Edward BloorSource : Edward Bloor (2006). “Tangerine”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.”
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“Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance,”
Source : "Tendulkar hogs limelight in Sydney". www.cnn.com. January 3, 2004.
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“I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances”
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Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.23, Baker Books
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“How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.”
Source : Arna Wendell Bontemps (1973). “The Old South: "A summer tragedy" and other stories of the thirties”, Dodd Mead
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