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Quotes by Filipino Authors
"Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows."
"I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine."
"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot."
"It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal'."
"Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane."
"Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?"
"Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter."
"Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell."
"There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret."
"There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb."
"It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings."
"We like to think we're in control but we never are."
"She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely."
"Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing."
"If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why."
"Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels."
"When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B."
"When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it."
"It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right."
"You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want."
"The horizon changes but the sun does not."
"Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude."
"Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps."
"The praise and glorification of God doesn't exclusively spring from deep and untroubled understanding, it is in spite of " and even because of " deep and troubled circumstance."
"It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in."
"When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops."
"Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much."
"If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams."
"Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones."
"If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me."
"Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience."
"Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do."
"It's only awkward if it matters."
"She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars."
"If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?"
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