"A corner of his mouth quirked up. â€œI play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport youâ€™re curious about?â€ â€œHockey? Polo?â€ â€œSimultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates."

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Source : Devon Monk (2010). “Magic on the Storm: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.60, Penguin

Devon Monk

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“She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. Butno , she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.”
“Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
“My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.”
“The world of fashion. I'm interested in the world, not in fashion! But, maybe I was too quick to put down fashion. Why not look at it without prejudice? Why not examine it like any other industry, like the movies for example?”
“We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.”
“I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.”
“What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.”

Source : "What Science Teaching Needs". Junior College Journal, Volume 38, by American Association of Junior Colleges, Stanford University, 1967.
“We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.”

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