"I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power."

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Susan Abulhawa

#War Quotes #Boys Quotes #Leader Quotes

“Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-" "Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If I hear the phrase 'if I might be so bold' one more time, as God is my witness, I'm going to toss you into the channel!" "Oh dear," Penelope said. "Perhaps he does have the fever, after all.Perriwick , what do you think?" The butler reached for Blake's forehead, only to have his hand nearly bitten off. "Touch me and die," Blake snarled.”
“...she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything”
“The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.”
“I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were others like me.”

Source : Ivan E. Coyote (2010). “Missed Her (Large Print 16pt)”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Brit Marling smartest girl I've ever met. Hands down. Brilliant. Her story? She had a graduate degree from a top tier school and turned down a job with some big company. She went to LA, said she was going to be an actress. She wasn't getting auditions, so she started writing her own films.”
“It's so important to just be kind to one another because we aren't walking in that other person's shoes.”
“I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.”
“Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.”

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