Margaret George Quotes

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• We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say...
• Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.
• Kindness is stronger than iron bars.
• Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
• One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so…
• It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust…
• We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which…
• When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant…
• In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.
• What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.
• I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to…
• The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.
• Things do not happen, we must make them happen
• So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
• Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone…
• It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been…
• To love someone is to catch your breath whenever he walks in the room.
• Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.
• Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to…
• Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become…

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