"You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it."

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Source : Elissa Schappell (2012). “Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

Elissa Schappell

#Mother Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Choices Quotes

“I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.”
“It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.”

Source : Foreword to L. J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment (1958)
“I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets."”
“If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.”
“What's behind you doesn't matter.”
“How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?”
“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”
“It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.”

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