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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 have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical."
"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."
"I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine."
"Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane."
"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'."
"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."
"Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?"
"Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell."
"Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter."
"She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely."
"There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb."
"There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret."
"It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings."
"Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing."
"We like to think we're in control but we never are."
"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."
"Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels."
"If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why."
"When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B."
"The horizon changes but the sun does not."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones."
"Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience."
"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."
"Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps."
"If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams."
"It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in."
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