47 Quotes by David Arnold


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    The thing about uniquely pretty girls is that their prettiness cares nothing for time or place. It cannot be rescheduled or relocated. They are pretty wherever they go, whenever they get there. It can be quite distracting.

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    I have this theory about teachers, and what separates the good ones from the bad: it's not that good teachers don't think about quitting; it's that they never look like they've already quit.

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    Outside, the forest was alive with invisible things, nighttime critters and near-winter winds and tree-siblings breathing staccato breaths, reaching out for one another, seeking touch. Nico listened for their words of comfort… We are here. You are not alone. She felt her place among them, felt them calling her home.

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    Later in life, it would occur to me that despite his actions, my father really did want what was best for his family. As to how he would accomplish that? He had no idea. Later in life, it would occur to me that this was the ultimate dichotomy: for a person to want what's best but draw from their worst. Dad did just that...His methods weren't just ineffective, they were insane. Such were the fates of good men once succumbed to the madness of the world.

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    My heart was so full, I thought it might explode into the ether, creating some bizarre new solar system whose inhabitants ate only love, drank only hope, and breathed only joy. What a substantial galaxy that would be.

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    Ella miró la luna y siguió cantando en una voz entregada. Mientras lo hacía, yo me transporté a otro mundo, en el que los chicos eran amables, nadie me señalaba jamás y en el que todos bailábamos y nos quedábamos despiertos hasta tarde contándonos historias, tomando chocolate caliente con malvaviscos y viviendo en un invernadero con amigos únicos.

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    In this land the only explosions were those of laughter, the only breaking was of bread, and the only shootings we're of stars across the clear Brazzaville sky

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    I think we're going to continue this cold pattern into March. The real question is how far into March this is going to continue.

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