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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."
"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."
"I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine."
"Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter."
"It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings."
"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'."
"Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?"
"When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B."
"We like to think we're in control but we never are."
"There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret."
"Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell."
"When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather."
"It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right."
"Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it."
"Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane."
"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."
"She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely."
"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."
"Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value."
"If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams."
"You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary."
"Dear World,I exist.Deal with it."
"There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb."
"I had no money to start,For Jack decreed in his pride:The Caveman's wife didn't work - It was his job to provide.A brief reminder right here:Let men believe they are shrewd,But even women of oldEmbroidered mittens for food."
"She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars."
"Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones."
"Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience."
"Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much."
"Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude."
"It's only awkward if it matters."
"When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable."
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