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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."
"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'."
"Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter."
"There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret."
"Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell."
"It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings."
"Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?"
"Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane."
"We like to think we're in control but we never are."
"When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B."
"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."
"It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right."
"Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels."
"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."
"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."
"If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams."
"Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience."
"There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb."
"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."
"Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps."
"You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want."
"Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it."
"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."
"Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died."
"It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in."
"Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude."
"She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars."
"When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable."
"Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones."
"One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge."
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