"Clara," he says, my name sounding different somehow when it passes through his lips. "I'll miss you."

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Source : Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.148, Egmont UK

Cynthia Hand

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“Itâ€™s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, youâ€™re left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.”
“One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.”
“Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly historyâ€™s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.”
“You need the willingness to fail all the time.”
“We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.”
“The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.”
“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.”

Source : Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.”

Source : Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

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