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61 " The term " political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's " Thought Police" and fascist regimes. "

62 " ...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words. "

― Orhan Pamuk , The Black Book

63 " There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than " Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying " cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place. "

64 " Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. "

― Richard Bach , Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

65 " My grandfather would pet the dog, and, in a voice that made him sound like some kind of children's program puppet, he would say: " You're a dog! You're a dog! Where are you? You're a dog!" and the dog's tongue would drop out of its mouth and it would start keening. After a few hours of this, I said, " Jesus Grandpa, I get it, he's a dog," not knowing that, just a few years later, I would be reminding every dog I met on the street that it was a dog, and asking it where it was. "

66 " You know you walk in the light when the enemy keeps reminding you of your past mistakes, because the enemy's role is to derail into darkness. "

67 " Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)

68 " There is no point reminding you the memories you don't remember. "

69 " Lost love belongs in a three-minute song, pullling back feelings from a time when they came unbidden, recalling the infatuation, the walking on sunshine that cannot last and the pain of its loss, whether through parting or the passage of time, reminding us that we are emotional beings "

― Graeme Simsion , The Best of Adam Sharp

70 " I began to feel that nature itself was nurturing me, reminding me that life still offered beauty and calm, and that I was also made out of these elements. "

71 " I always thought of grief as a blow that took everything out of you. And it is like that. But it stays, past that first hard hit. It stays and blows its breath into you.
It's always there, reminding you of what you've lost. What's gone. "

― Elizabeth Scott , Heartbeat

72 " Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away. "

― Emma Donoghue

73 " If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its images of the good life. "

74 " A bedraggled woman stood on his doorstep in the pouring rain, and his first impulse was to slam the door in her face.
But she had clearly come as far as she could; her pale face was twisted in pain, and she shivered convulsively beneath a denim jacket that was as soaking wet as the rest of her. Long black strands of hair hung down in twisted ribbons like seaweed in the vanishing daylight, reminding him of a sea creature he'd once dated briefly in his more adventurous youth. "

― Deborah Blake , Dangerously Charming (Broken Riders, #1)

75 " The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate. "

― Ravi Zacharias , Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

76 " And he looked at me then, and with real kindness on his face, and I see now that he recognized what I did not: that in spite of my plenitude, I was lonely. Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me. "

77 " Longing was a feeling that was hard to live with. It didn’t ask permission. It didn’t pay attention to time or place. It was overwhelming and demanding, grasping and selfish. It clouded thoughts or made them too bright, too sharp. Longing demanded unconditional surrender. Lumikki tried to fight it and failed. She didn’t want to long and yet she longed. She didn’t want to remember, and yet her dreams and her body remembered, reminding her constantly.
The longing was physical. It was dizziness. It was a seizing in her belly. It was the need to wrap her arms around herself alone in bed when there was no one else to do it for her. She felt the longing in her fingertips that yearned to stroke, to touch, to caress. The longing made her fingers restless, fiddling with the zipper of her jacket, the strings in her hoodie, fidgeting with whatever little thing happened to her hand. The longing made her teeth bite into her lower lip, leaving it chipped and almost bleeding. She knew she was being stupid. She knew her longing was pointless. "

― Salla Simukka , As White as Snow (Lumikki Andersson, #2)

78 " ... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began
... "

― , A Familiar Rain

79 " Often I return to the grave after leaving flowers – tulips, lilies, carnations – to find the heads eaten by deer. It’s just as good a use for the flowers as any, and one Paul would have liked. The earth is quickly turned over by worms, the processes of nature marching on, reminding me of what Paul saw and what I now carry deep in my bones, too: the inextricability of life and death, and the ability to cope, to find meaning despite this, because of this. What happened to Paul was tragic, but he was not a tragedy. "

― Paul Kalanithi , When Breath Becomes Air

80 " Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness. "

― Bryant McGill , Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life