#par

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#being #being different #clothes #different #i

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#arranged #aware #came #continue #did

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#back #blew #born #described #everything

After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions. ↗

— Bert Lahr

#i #lion #lions #many #oz

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions. ↗

— Bert Lahr

#big #career #hit #hollywood #hurt

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#does #great #offer #particular #parts

We're close. I can smell their faint scent," Blake whispered. Kieran snorted. "That makes one of us. All I smell is dog shit. ↗

— Jayde Scott

#ancient-legends #jayde-scott #paranormalromance #young-adult #young-adult

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#always #am #ask #compared #hard

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#because #country #effect #i #importance

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance. ↗

— Robert Blair

#how #joys #painful #remembrance #return