"All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this..."

-- Shirley Jackson

#Mother Quotes #Cat Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“A â€˜liberal paradiseâ€™ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... Itâ€™s called prison.”
“Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.”
“I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.”
“Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.”
“Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.”
“Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.”
“So it's an interesting process just going through and seeing what works and what doesn't work, and what's the best version of it. It was a good process because I think we all collectively, when everyone would run into issues in the cut or know that things weren't working, they kind of glaringly stuck out so we could focus on fixing those things and it wasn't a situation where you would show it to ten people and you would have ten problems.”
“Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.”

Source : Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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