"A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods."

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Source : Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1817, Del Rey

Scott Lynch

#Girl Quotes #Sunshine Quotes #Boys Quotes

“A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.”

Source : "Memoirs" by Pierre Trudeau, (Part 5, Life After Politics, p. 366), 1993.
“It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.”
“The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.”
“The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers.”
“Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.”
“I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.”
“When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.”
“Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.”

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