"One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes."

-- Scarlett Thomas

#Girl Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.”
“Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.”

Source : "Other Voices, Other Rooms".
“The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.”

Source : Mary Stewart (1998). “Rose Cottage”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
“It is not to say that everything is fine and a positive attitude is all you need. But I share about values and principles and attitudes and I never tell people I understand their pain.”
“And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.”
“We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.”

Source : Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College
“This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.”
“When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.”

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