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The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.

The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.
– David Anthony Durham

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  2. Time to read is always time stolen. (Like time to write, for that matter, or time to love).Stolen from what?From the tyranny of living. – Daniel Pennac
  3. One must find rhythms others’ ears don’t hear. – David Anthony Durham
  4. Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving. – David Anthony Durham
  5. Stolen oranges also have Vitamin C. Likewise, a stolen salmon, too, has omega-3 fatty acids. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  6. Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. – Colson Whitehead
  7. our feet are grape-squashed in memoriesour skins are still flushedfrom the touch of summer’s lips. – Sanober Khan
  8. Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency – PS Martinez
  9. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. – Oscar Wilde
  10. Everyone can be trusted. You just can’t give them more than they can be trusted with. – Mikaela Bender
  11. Women weren’t to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren’t to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that. – Margaret Way
  12. Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you. – Donna Lynn Hope
  13. Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much – Anonymous
  14. One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves. – Marcel Proust
  15. I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books. – Alyse M Gardner
  16. Professionalism shouldn’t be defined by a persons paycheck, role or title. It should be defined by a persons work ethic – Janna Cachola
  17. I have seen many educated persons splitting garbage over roads and many uneducated persons cleaning it. – Rumman Bin Sadiq
  18. All those persons who ride high on the clouds of perfection refuse to accept that they could become better persons. – Balroop Singh
  19. We are born to be loved, we live to be loved, and we die to be loved; so life is for love. – Debasish Mridha
  20. Do not give your most cherish dreams.Dreams are scriptures.Dreams are possibilities.Dreams always come true. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  21. Open scatter is more fundamental than coupled sharing; it is the stuff from which, on splendid occasions, dialogue may arise. – John Durham Peters
  22. If only we were angels, with transparent bodies and transparent thoughts… – John Durham Peters
  23. The one kiss that was stolen, was given in a lie. – Anthony Liccione
  24. If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God. – Augustine of Hippo
  25. No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  26. People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted. – Jean Vanier
  27. To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. – George MacDonald
  28. I trust God, but He trusted me first. I love God, but He loved me first. – Alin Sav
  29. I’m blessed when someone who I loved and trusted dropped me off, because I have a good choice to think and great lesson to learn – Sivaprakash Sidhu
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  31. Vegas changed people, creating monsters and broken men. It was easy to let the lights and stolen dreams seep into your blood. – Jamie McGuire
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  33. Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop-”there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God. – Christina Westover
  34. How can we understand the world and the universe when we haven’t even understood ourselves? – Anthony T Hincks
  35. Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. – Max Beerbohm
  36. Stolen pleasures are always more thrilling than those come by honestly. – Ann Leary
  37. Don’t try to understand women.Women don’t want to be understood,they just want to be loved.It is men who crave understanding. – Manoj Vaz
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  40. I’ll take stolen kisses and trysts in the cane fields for as long as I live over a life without you in it. – Heather M Orgeron

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