Kami Garcia Quotes
It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.
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I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.
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My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.
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Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
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It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.
