My father, a closet astronomer, has tried to explain black holes to me, how they are so heavy they absorb everything, even light, right into their center. Moments like this are the same kind of vacuum; no matter what you cling to, you wind up being sucked in.
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Related No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of bein... AIMEE TEEGARDEN You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowne... ELIZABETH WURTZEL Moments like this are why you get into coaching. The girls have such a passion for the game, and to ... JEANNIE THOMPSON You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like... CASSANDRA CLARE We wanted a census of all the black holes and we wanted to know what they are like. We also wanted t... DR. NIEL BRANDT How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's int... ANDREA M. GHEZ No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, bec... BART STUPAK SINCE YOU HAVE BROKEN UP WITH ME
MY HEART IS PAINTED BLACK
MY THOUGHTS ARE BLIND
FOR THEY SEE NO LIG... HLONIM Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy... JODI PICOULT No matter what sort of car you are driving or how fast you drive, we all meet behind the same red li... MOE CIDALY Search and find out what you are meant to do in this life, when you find it, do it SOTONYE ANGA It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit ... SARAH DESSEN And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of l... MARK HADDON I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a v... RACHEL NICHOLS I didn't want to be on the same side of the bracket as Hope because they are playing real strong rig... LEROY ORTIZ Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the s... KIRBY PUCKETT No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.... JOSH MCDOWELL They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this ... MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the... WESLEY SNIPES There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. STEPHEN HAWKING I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that'... DIMITAR SASSELOV Throughout the Zelda series I've always tried to make players feel like they are in a kind of miniat... SHIGERU MIYAMOTO Some people are like rocks, they ground you but sometimes put you in a hard place. Others are like t... NI D BREEN I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on ... REGGIE WATTS After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd b... CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l... STEVEN SPIELBERG True friends are to people what lighthouses are to ships. No matter how stormy it gets, they stay pu... JULIE-ANNE You are what you are, and what you are is not me! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are... DEYTH BANGER Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions... BRIAN GREENE No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech i... KIRK DOUGLAS Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful yo... KATE BECKINSALE I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how k... LEMON ANDERSEN My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no... VINNY GUADAGNINO The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are,... TIBOR FISCHER I'd like to dedicate this to just thinking outside the box and not being afraid of who you are no ma... ALICIA KEYS Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand. LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS Everything considered, it's really something that you can't really explain how excited guys are. Eve... JAKE DOWELL When checking in at an airport, no matter how rude the check-in person is to you, always smile and b... ROSS KEMP They kind of sucked me up again on that downhill and into the second hill. I tried to make a pass on... ANDY NEWELL you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm a... MICHAEL POLLAN Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has n... ARTHUR KROKER We've learned a lot more about how X-rays are produced in the vicinity of black holes. We've learned... ANDREW WEISSKOPF You see, Yousef, you can't force someone in their hearts to believe the way you do. They all tried a... POLA MUZYKA People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re ... SHANNON L. ALDER You learn that even actors you see on television, you end up in the same audition room as them. You ... JOEL RIET The fact of the matter is that you cannot make other people do anything without their consent. No ma... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA What is the purpose? Do no ask. No one knows, not even God, as He advances along with us, He too, se... N. KAZANTZAKIS Appearances to save, his only care;
So things seem right, no matter what they are. CHARLES CHURCHILL The second advantage of being on antipsychotics is that they actually help. In the time I've been on... JENNY LAWSON If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s be... JODI PICOULT They are waiting for you to light up, So that they can blow you off. DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this... KURT VONNEGUT if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I kind of really study different angles of the film. You see how people's bodies are, how they r... STEFON DIGGS And if he was kind and friendly and funny, and if he told you about places so beautiful that you wan... CAROLINE LEECH Black Lives Matter has no more to do with black issues than Students for a Democratic Society had to... DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. You are the light in a dark place. You are the water to my drought. You are everything I never knew ... SHELLY CRANE I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, a... J. AUGUST RICHARDS ... You asked how am I?? Really?? So you care about me?? or you just decided to ask to return it bac... DEYTH BANGER It's a tough place to pitch - especially tonight, the wind was blowing out to right-center. They hav... JOE BLANTON No one ever gives me their kindness without hoping for something in exchange. Are they an... MARIE LU So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON They stepped up and did what they needed to do despite being tired. This is a good win, no matter ho... DEB HENDERSON It was a relief for someone to explain what was wrong, what had happened. No one else, none of those... CATHERINE LACEY We already knew that powerful quasars are very efficient at making light. Now we know that black hol... KIM WEAVER I couldn’t tell you, Robert, what the higher ramifications are of being soul mates. I can tell you... RICHARD MATHESON Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you. They, too,... NIKKI SIXX The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arro... FAY WELDON Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: there can be no
kernel in this light nut; the soul... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They ask you everything from what you like to eat to what you won't eat and what you're afraid of. L... JAMES HORTON No matter what you do, no matter what you say, someone out there will proclaim how outraged they are... OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personall... LIZZO When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD They really want to get out of this case already because ... no matter what, even if you are under U... BENJAMIN FORMOSO The people who are your friends before you got the crown are the people who are going to be your bes... MEG CABOT I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have... ED HELMS I have seen people starting the fire with water, turning every breeze into a storm, create chaos out... AKSHAY VASU What kind of woman was she? What kind of woman was it who called to me from that calamity on the Sev... RICK MOODY I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind o... DONNY OSMOND Has anybody ever written a horror pop-up book? The center of the book pops up and opens the gate to ... NEIL LECKMAN Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and disli... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me t... WINONA RYDER What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenp... ALEX KURTZMAN Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK One of the key differences between galaxies with super massive black holes is whether or not the bla... ANDREA M. GHEZ No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always f... CASSANDRA CLARE You enter the game and see what kind of game plan they have for you defensively. If they bring a bun... DREW BREES I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my clos... LAURA MARANO It's kind of a difficult thing to explain. You run into dates, what dates fit into their schedule. S... DONNIE JONES I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes y... ANN RINALDI When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they... SOURCE UNKNOWN But,’ she continued, ‘the goddess is too strong. Her will too absolute. The poison that is indif... STEVEN ERIKSON I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your... CAMERON DIAZ This is the kind of thing that's so big, you can't even put it into words. Just how much this means ... JOE SLOAN The hours are slow in passing as they always are when you are waiting in fear for you know not what:... AMITAV GHOSH
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JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT