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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cbb3435 | Her father spoils her with ideas. He encourages her to climb high, reach for the heavens. But who is there to catch her when she falls? Me. Who has to explain to her that not as many doors are open as she would like to think? Me. So what do I get in repayment? I am the bad person. The one standing in her way. Have you ever seen a daughter who hated her mother so, | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| eae920a | These things occur between mothers and daughters. Their relationships are more fragile than fathers and sons. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| d42c7e6 | Mama does not like to make too many waves in the ocean. She told us it is important to be good to one another, especially now. She said the time has come when we must each lean on the other, so it is important to have patience. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 0533734 | What did you think? That we were going to a tea party? These men are trained to live through days in the jungle without food, without hope. They fight for a better Philippinas than the one we have at this moment. We've been reduced to animals, and so we act as such. Do you have a better answer on how to win this war? | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| bb08013 | Overhead, the Amerikano planes buzz by, great birds swooping down with a vengeance. But who is winning? I cannot imagine the Amerikanos will win. How can they? They have lost once before, and how will they resupply themselves when their country is so far away? The Japanese need only jump north and they will be home. How I wish they would both go home. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| def081b | I prayed in my heart for a real father, since the one I had been given was a failure to me. That was my deepest wish, and my deepest sorrow. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| bbdf109 | I look him straight in the eyes. I know I should not do this, but it has always been this way with me. Once I feel fear, I can stand it for only so long before I become angry. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| f3d243f | I have been her greatest foe, and she my biggest protector. Her heart is so pure, like a child's. She gives without thinking. She longs to have beautiful things, I see it in her eyes, but she always thinks of us first. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 6a2d0d1 | In church, does it ever seem to you a kind of game? Hypocritical. Be humble, they say, yet people come in their best clothes. Give penance, yet as they close their eyes and kneel, they compare who is better dressed, the beauty of someone else's wife, the sway of her hips, they think of anything but prayers. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| e33ed8a | I must wait, bide my time. There will be an opportunity. I need only keep my eyes open. Back | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 94fca62 | Do not hold this pain of what has happened to you close to your heart, Isabelle. You must let it go. No matter how painful. It will ruin you. If you keep silent, if you swallow it, it will eat you like a cancer." I" | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 6f18408 | I tell you now, better to spit it all out, cry a hundred days over this matter, an entire year, than ruin your life over it. You must acknowledge it now, so that it has no power over you. I do not assume to know what you are going through, but I do know something about hate. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| dd95818 | The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 32be485 | Do not hold on to the bitterness, Isabelle, it will eat at your body like worms, and you will ruin your future because of it. I was not always this unhappy. I know what people call me behind my back, | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| c607b60 | I thought to myself how lucky, how lucky that I jumped at my only chance when I could. Sure, I did not love him, but I was loved. I had everything Corazon had wanted. I had beaten her at every round, yet I felt nothing but a devastating emptiness inside. Y | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 441944c | I had many dreams, too. But I became bitter, and by the time I realized it, I had almost wished my whole life away. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| d25d476 | I am not afraid of ghosts. My mother said they can't hurt you. Only the living can. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| f642fbe | you should rejoice in what you do have. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| a3732f3 | We must rely on God. We must ask Him to make us strong, unafraid. To give us the strength to band together, to defeat these devils." She makes the sign of the cross. "God will guide us through this." | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 73075fa | I had decided the best way to breach our distance was to forget the past and start new. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| d84cbd7 | That evening when my destiny changed is a tattoo needled into my soul. I shall never forget it. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 569049f | Tears must not fall on dead. Otherwise spirit not able to rest. Janna will be bound to earth by tears, and spirit will return again and again to owner of tears, until matter is resolved. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| d81aec3 | I do not care. My baby, my baby, oh, Janna. Ako na lang sana." People gasped at her last words and made the sign of the cross. It was very bad luck, what she said, to wish that it had been she who had died instead." | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| e5c4a9d | My aunts did not share in the housework, but they contributed greatly to all of the village gossip. They had fake faces, showing Mama kindness and calling her ate, "big sister," but once they were alone, I heard the snide remarks they shot like an arrow in her direction. They had no shame. On that day of our deepest sorrow, the two of them snorted, elbowing each other while Mama writhed in agony on the floor," | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 0984a29 | Yesterday you spoke of power as if it were a good thing. You said you wished we had some kind of magic that could rid us of the Japanese soldiers. I have never seen it used for good. Think of the Japanese soldiers with all their power. It has eroded their hearts and their souls. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 990b992 | we must be thankful that we are all together. And we must believe that there is a reason we are still alive, | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 38e5f65 | Family is important above all else. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 5f93190 | When there is no family, what else is there to fight for? I was blinded with obsession, for something that could never fill me. I lost everything that mattered. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 4eed3ed | They were hollow words. I think God heard this and knew. Promises should be sacred; I think I cursed myself by making one I did not intend to keep. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 0fb7a0d | mine is not the only family to consider. There are many others that may die if none of us were to fight. You see how many volunteer to go up against the enemy now? Me alone in this room of hundreds. If no one fights, then I will have the satisfaction of saving only my family above the thousands more. I could not live with that. If I lead my men, if we assist the Amerikanos in our own way, then many more may be saved. You yourself saw how be.. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 3c78cb4 | The doors to my heart had shut. I had only hate inside me, complete hate. I felt as if my life were just a series of betrayals. So when Jamie, the one good thing, finally arrived, I was too hardened. Like a dried-up grape, nothing could bring back my sweetness. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 046499b | Be glad that you have your health. Do not always be so concerned with money," my father said." | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| a96519b | Do not try to force yourself back into this old life. It is like trying to fit into a pair of old trousers once you have grown taller. It no longer suits you. It never will again. It is best to admit this, lest you force the fit and look ridiculous. Better for the pants, better for you, better for all who would see you wear them. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 28f2596 | Remember the woman at Sodom and Gomorrah whose husband told her not to look back, as the angel of God had instructed? And what did she do? She looked back one last time, and turned to a pillar of salt. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 172eb25 | God helps those who help themselves. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| b82672b | When you begin to think of returning to your old life, flee, flee to the opposite direction. Or it will be very bad for all concerned. For then you will be divided, and then you will be of no use to anyone. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 8d0e8f4 | Do not let your anger misguide you, my friend. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| ff28168 | I did not attend her anniversary gathering. I knew it would not bring her back. I didn't want to remember anymore. It was too painful. The | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 631e427 | When they were children, Mama's elder sister had been dubbed the smart one and Mama the beautiful one. This was how my grandmother had raised them. As if a woman could not be both beautiful and smart. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 85c87db | only later, when we had wasted so much time, was I able to see that I had thrown away my chances at happiness. So I have learned to let go of anger, to never let it wrap its talons around me again. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 006dc58 | To lie, of course, is to engender insanity. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 3f50ce0 | People living deeply have no fear of death. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| d662387 | Our experiences are different, yet they could have the same ending. Only you are young yet, you still have a choice. Do not hold this bitterness to you. Crush it and let it fly away. Both of you, start anew, leave the bitterness behind." When" | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| e8ec1b0 | Yet I see that she means for me to understand about choosing to truly live or choosing to stay alive when you have died inside. | Tess Uriza Holthe |