Kate > Kate's Quotes

“The ramifications of the choice I made in July pitch up and bed-in for the night: I let him go at an age when no-one else will want me. I was reckless with my best years. I have nothing to show for them.”
― Kate Tough, Head for the Edge, Keep Walking

“I stroke a finger over my own top button, undo it, then let my hand drop with an exaggerated sigh. "It's not quite the same," I declare, "ripping my own clothes off.”
― Kate Tough, Head for the Edge, Keep Walking

“Takes a special kind to go
another kind to stay here

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Nowhere do such patriots so embrace
the leaving of the place”
― Kate Tough, 26 Treasures

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
― Franz Kafka