Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.
– Louise Erdrich
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- Soon she cried and farted herself to sleep. – Louise Erdrich
- Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands. – Louise Erdrich
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- They’re all the same– the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor– they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth – Louise Erdrich
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- Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction. – Barry Lyga
- Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship -“ never. – Charles Caleb Cotton
- Guilt is the toothache of the soul. – Tommy Cotton
- One of the only things more powerful than the human heart is the that it takes to heal one that has been broken – Tommy Cotton
- it ain’t as hard as picking cotton – Wynton Marsalis
- The only reason a true friend won’t be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall. – Tommy Cotton
- Denim and doubt, cotton and caution, fell to the floor in a forgotten heap – Karen Keast
- Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking. – Tommy Cotton
- Life is about balance. It’s not about forgetting the bad times or escaping them. It’s about creating enough good times to outweigh the bad. – Tommy Cotton
- Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Heya, Arlene. What’s shakin’?- Cotton greeted.-œDon’t shift some of this weight, everything,- Arlene replied. – Kristen Ashley
- I’m wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face. – Tahereh Mafi
- If I had followed every urge I ever had, I would have had much more sex and killed a lot more people – Tommy Cotton
- Worn over the man’s head like a deranged bank robber is a pair of pink cotton panties. – Dave Lundy
- Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. – Yukio Mishima
- It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse – Nancy B Brewer
- Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you. – Scott Dye
- I can’t remember what I really felt. Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions. – Margaret Atwood
- Our emotions stem from our thoughts, redirect your thoughts to redirect your emotions. – Sam Owen
- Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth. – Billy Graham
- Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love’s durability. – Donna Lynn Hope
- Never let yourself be swayed by emotions,’ her mother had said. ‘Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever. – Monica Fairview
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- Opinions are based on experiences and experience is always connected with emotions. Anything linked with emotions is always biased. – Nauman Khan