Aimee Friedman quotes

“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”
-- Aimee Friedman

Source : Aimee Friedman (2009). “Sea Change”, p.107, Scholastic Inc.

#Summer Quotes #Home Quotes #Vacation Quotes

“By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.”
-- Aimee Friedman

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“It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.”
-- Aimee Friedman

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“...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.”
-- Aimee Friedman

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“My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.”
-- Aimee Friedman

#Mom Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Marine Quotes

“Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here.”
-- Aimee Friedman

Source : Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.97, Scholastic UK

#Understanding Quotes #Want Quotes #Find Me Quotes

“I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny. I'm not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I'd seen him. Maybe I wasn't who I'd thought I was either.”
-- Aimee Friedman

#Destiny Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...”
-- Aimee Friedman

Source : Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.148, Scholastic UK

#Summer Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Diagnosis Quotes

“I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful”
-- Aimee Friedman

Source : Aimee Friedman (2009). “Sea Change”, p.198, Scholastic Inc.

#Beautiful Quotes #Land Quotes #Long Quotes

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.462, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.”

“I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.”

“Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.”

“Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting.”

“Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.”

“An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.”

Source : Ben Ames Williams (1944). “Leave Her to Heaven”

“Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.”

“Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.”