"Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids."

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Source : Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

Malorie Blackman

#Python Quotes #Twists Quotes #Tables Quotes

“You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese Witherspoon stars are out of favor right now- nobody is making them. In this business, if you are an ambitious person, you don't wait for people to hand you opportunities. You have to make a way for yourself.”
“We challenge our kids to be close around the 2:00 mark. If we can do that we can win games.”
“Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.”
“How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?”
“She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.”
“I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.”
“Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.”
“In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell”

Source : "The Great Debate In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire’s death knell". blogs.reuters.com. December 16, 2014.

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