"Ruth hadn't talked to my sister since before my death, and then it was only to excuse herself in the hallway at school. But she'd seen Lindsey walking home with Samuel and seen her smile with him. She watched as my sister said yes to pancakes and no to everything else. She had tried to imagine herself being my sister as she had spent time imagining being me."

-- Alice Sebold

#Home Quotes #School Quotes #Ruth Quotes

“I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.”
“I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, le b*** manager, ***** uselss b***!”

Source : "Said & Done" by Davis Hills, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2004.
“I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.”
“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
“A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.”
“It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them”
“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.”
“War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.81, Columbia University Press

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