When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,’ Miriam says.
– Anna Funder
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- Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time. – Anna Funder
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- Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all – Alan Moore
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- A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big. – Scott Edward Shjefte
- What’s true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says. – Mark Hall
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- Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you. – David Mitchell
- Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength – Prabhukrishna M
- A human is just a human, but a human together with God is a super-human – Sunday Adelaja
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- Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities. – Miriam Allen de Ford
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- Why write? Life is a cage of empty words. – Miriam Elia
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- There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. – Miriam Toews
- But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief. – Miriam Toews
- Life is a consequence of our moral choices. – Miriam Defensor Santiago
- When I wake from my nightmaresI’m more afraid of the breath in my lungs than whatever might be chasing me. – Miriam Joy
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- The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome. – SA Tawks
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- And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled? – Mordecai Richler
- In the darkness and the snow, the street is emptyand it is just the night, the ice and me. – Miriam Joy
- Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal. – Miriam Darnell
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- A human who learns, and practices the art of love as does divinity, is no longer human. – TF Hodge
- Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds. – John Powell
- The longer the waiting, the longer the wondering. – Lailah Gifty Akita