"Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Reading Quotes #Book Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.”
“Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said. Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?" "I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs," said Katsa indignantly.”
“She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.107, Macmillan
“Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?”
“Women could get it done...That's why we need more women to run so we have more women in power to make decisions.”
“The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.”
“Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization.”
“In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.”

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