Mirrlees Jvs12t Quotes & Sayings

When you live alone people are always thinking they can stay with you, when the opposite is true: who they should stay with is a person whose situation is already messed up by other people and so one more won't matter. — Miranda July

Don't judge us too harshly - or not, at least, till you have taken the trouble to learn our point of view. You consider the individual - we think only of the family. — Edith Wharton

I was distracted, thinking about what she'd said, until she got to this last part. "Sherman?" I said.
She nodded. "That's John and Craig's friend. He's visiting from Shreveport."
"Sherman from Shreveport?" I said. "This is the guy you're determined I go out with?"
"You can't judge a book by its cover!" she snapped. When I slid my eyes toward Forbidden, she grabbed it up, shoving it back under the bed. "You know what I mean. Sherman might be very nice. — Sarah Dessen

He has no ABCD friends at college. He avoids them, for they remind him too much of the way his parents choose to live, befriending people not so much because they like them, but because of a past they happen to share. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The Griffith House was like nothing Viviane remembered, reminding her of how fast the world changed and of how insignificant she was in the grand scheme of things. She thought it unfair that her life should be both irrelevant and difficult. One or the other seemed quite enough. — Leslye Walton

Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality. — Bryant McGill

The only lasting truth is change. God is change. — Octavia Butler

We carry our childhood with us. — Gary D. Schmidt