"Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop."

-- Meg Rosoff

#Fall Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Blood Quotes

“I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence”

Source : Song: Words I Never Said, Album: Lasers, 2011
“I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.”
“I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.”
“I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.”
“When I go to a music concert, I don't say, "My purpose is to get to the end and enjoy the finale." If that were the purpose, everybody would write finales and nothing more. The purpose of the concert is to enjoy each note as you go along.”
“I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.”

Source : "Birdy Releases Debut Album". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 16, 2012.
“I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.”
“Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?”

Source : Henry Kirke White (1842). “The Works of Henry Kirke White: Containing His Life, Poems, and Melancholy Hours”, p.204

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