Setting Quotes

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Its so weird how connecting with someone in a different setting can bring out this whole other side of them. Like how certain places inspire… — Susane Colasanti
That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the… — Stephen King
In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
By the Angel, Bridgetâ€™s depressing,â€ said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk.… — Cassandra Clare
I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the… — William Faulkner
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of… — Flannery O'Connor
In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere… — Alfie Kohn
To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an… — Fernando Pessoa
It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the… — Alain de Botton
Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work… — Mitch Albom
Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. — John F. Kennedy
The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will… — George R. R. Martin
There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in… — Bear Grylls
Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband… — Louise Erdrich
Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said… — Cassandra Clare
I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row,… — Kiersten White
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light. — Russell Kirk
There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts. — Rick Yancey
And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking… — Helene Cixous
Gideon was a man whoâ€™d lived an entirely solitary life, and yet heâ€™d accepted me into it so completely that he could envision a future… — Sylvia Day

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