"Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she was twenty-two and just very short and remedial."

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Maggie Stiefvater

#Blue Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Two Quotes

“National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.”

Source : The Wretched of the Earth "Concerning Violence" (1961) (translation by Constance Farrington)
“I like playing a bit of golf. But, if people went around beating people to death with golf clubs, I'd say, 'Ban golf. I'll take up tennis'”
“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”
“I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.”
“When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.”

Source : Thomas Eakins, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1970). “Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York”
“The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.”
“Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.”

Source : Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.10, Harper Collins
“My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.”

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