"She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive,……" — Steven Galloway
"She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever."
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Steven Galloway
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13 Quotes by Steven Galloway
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If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something…
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Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get…
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It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
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By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort…
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If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because…
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Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to…
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A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has…
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Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be…
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The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world…
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You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.
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The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.
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Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
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