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Quotes by Filipino Authors
"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."
"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."
"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'."
"She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely."
"I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine."
"There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret."
"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."
"We like to think we're in control but we never are."
"Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value."
"She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars."
"When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B."
"It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right."
"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."
"Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again."
"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."
"True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism."
"Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels."
"There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it."
"It's only awkward if it matters."
"How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention."
"If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room."
"You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want."
"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."
"Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it."
"Dear World,I exist.Deal with it."
"There is more to hear in what is not said."
"Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice."
"Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself."
"Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material."
"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."
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