"Nic's going to be an old maid," Michael said, giggling. "What?" she snapped. "How do you even know what that means? You're like, four years old." "Mommy said it," Michael answered. Bernie coughed, nearly choking on her food as Peter and Xavier laughed into their napkins."

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Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.285, Macmillan

Alexandra Adornetto

#Mean Quotes #Years Quotes #Maids Quotes

“When people are not given an option by some secret scoring system, it's very hard to complain, so they often don't even know that they've been victimized.”

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“The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.”
“Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.”

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“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”
“The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file”
“Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.”
“Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.”
“It's emotion. When you are watching a movie you see a woman sitting with her daughter and looking in her eyes and you see butterflies flying in the background and then you suddenly hear scary movie music and it changes the whole thing. But if something sounds different it changes the movie. Music is the back drop of what you talk about.”

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