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What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.


Celeste Ng

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I think it's like when you lose something so close to you, it's like losing yourself.
AVA DELLAIRA You are unbelievably sexy.
CORA CARMACK It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN As soon as we arrived home, I told Bliss I was going to take a shower. Sundays were a two-show day, ...
CORA CARMACK I'm just doing your tea, Mum," he said.
"Are you all imbecilic? Is that a requirement of enlis...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it...
MITCH ALBOM Bliss, I don’t normally do things like that. But I was second-guessing everything about coming her...
CORA CARMACK If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like. I shouldn't like it,...
CORA CARMACK What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.
CORA CARMACK If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings...
HARUKI MURAKAMI He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.
CORA CARMACK The timbre of his voice went into that low register that made my insides curl in on themselves--it w...
CORA CARMACK Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?
CORA CARMACK To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT People are losing precious hours of their life doing something that is outside of their purpose and ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.
CELESTE NG They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure ther...
CELESTE NG Всего несколькими днями раньше в сотнях миль от Бостон...
CELESTE NG. To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast ete...
CELESTE NG The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you--whether because you didn't get to ha...
CELESTE NG Nearly two decades later, others would raise this question, would talk about books as mirrors and wi...
CELESTE NG He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everythin...
CELESTE NG I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don...
CORA CARMACK She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.
CORA CARMACK I read this book once where the girl yelled 'cat' right before they were about to get some bow-chick...
J. LYNN Tell me I'm not crazy," He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to...
CORA CARMACK But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?
JOHN GREEN It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO To find why that happen and why this is happening, you should start from the beginning the problem c...
DEYTH BANGER People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what??
(I'm stupi...
DEYTH BANGER I know this sounds incredibly lame,
but I don't want losing my virginity
to feel like I'm ...
SONYA SONES We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability...
CORA CARMACK Thank you? Was that like a thanks, but no thanks? Thanks, but I’m watching a movie, leave me alone...
CORA CARMACK It’s not that I don’t like cats. And really, I think I would enjoy having… a cat. But what if ...
CORA CARMACK It was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. God, I was dying the l...
CORA CARMACK Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing?
DEYTH BANGER You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a...
PAULO COELHO It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi...
JOHN GREEN Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN I love my destruction. Cause I still love the cause of my destruction -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN She broke her own heart by holding him into it.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN You know your value, Only when someone else crumbles it... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno...
GARY F EVANS... Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart.. - Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept...
ANSHIKA JAIN It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love... -Anshika.
ANSHIKA JAIN Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself .... ...
ANSHIKA JAIN The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN Their story was just a chapter to him... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it.
DONALD RAY POLLOCK Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels.
KYLIE SCOTT Happiness ends with horror, you get terrified from the news don't ya?
From the earthquakes, up ...
DEYTH BANGER What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA You were given the precious gift of life; do something useful with it and do not waste what you have...
NICOLE MA Alam mo ba ang pinagkaiba ng mga bulag at ng mga nakakakita? Hindi alam ng mga nakakakita kung kelan...
BOB ONG Since finding out what something is, is largely a matter of discovering what it is like, the most im...
JONATHAN MILLER If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if t...
JACK LONDON (IT SPECIALIST) I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Ju...
CLAIRE DANES What frightened me most was, I could no longer believe in my own life as a story. Everyone needs a s...
AMANDA CRAIG Getting what I had desired for so long - success - and finding it didn't equate with actual happines...
STING Lahat ng mga salitang yan may dating sa'yo. Sabi kasi ng isip mo.
BOB ONG If something excites you, go for it.
CHAD HURLEY You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL We made a lot of improvement playing teams like those. My motto was, losing is not bad if you can ga...
BOBBY YOUNG Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
MAUREEN CORRIGAN Do what you do so well that even if you weren't paid to do it. Eventually others will want to pay yo...
LORRIN L. LEE Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER egolessness is not losing your personality, it's finding yourself
SUNALLURE If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES Don't dream it, be it.
TIM CURRY When we cut down an destroy rain forests we are not only killing living things that have been on thi...
GARY F EVANS...

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