"The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators."

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Source : Daryl Gregory (2015). “Harrison Squared”, p.111, Macmillan

Daryl Gregory

#Aunt Quotes #Parent Quotes #Substitutes Quotes

“Do you like scary stories? he asked ominously. Jacob Black”
“From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.”
“A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.”

Source : Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy (1987). “Language in Literature”, p.94, Harvard University Press
“There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.”
“Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.”
“I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.”
“After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.”
“It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.”

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