“When your're both finished trying to frighten each other away with the sordidness of your pasts, can you help me, please?”

— Melina Marchetta

Source: Froi of the Exiles

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Melina Marchetta 204

Australian teen writer 1965

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“Can you help me
Can you let me go
And can you still love me
When you can't see me anymore?

The fire fades away.”

KT Tunstall (1975) Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

"Other Side of the World".
Eye to the Telescope (2004)

“If there is no friendship with one's neighbours, no one can progress. Look at Canada and the USA -- both countries help each other.”

Sunil Dutt (1929–2005) Hindi film actor

We all are one, whichever religion we belong to

“Please finish every grain of rice in your bowl. Do not forget that each grain represents one drop of farmer's blood.”

Robert Kuok (1923) Malaysian businessman

Cap 1 "Moulded by Mother"

“Whether you accept Rādhā and Krishna, or not, please do accept their attraction for each other. Try to create that same yearning in your heart for God. Yearning is all you need in order to realize Him.”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 140

“Lovers … when you raise yourselves and press
your mouths together—drink upon drink:
strange how each of you drinks your way past the other.”

Rainer Maria Rilke book Duino Elegies

Liebende … [w]enn ihr einer dem andern
euch an den Mund hebt und ansetzt –: Getränk an Getränk:
o wie entgeht dann der Trinkende seltsam der Handlung.
Second Elegy (as translated by Lee Siegel)
Duino Elegies (1922)