"The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few of its many pleasures. Amanda Craig has created a hot shimmery climate in which a cast of old friends, quirky family members and naughty children who make love potions come to know themselves and their hearts. A delightful brew."

-- Jane Hamilton

#Children Quotes #Heart Quotes #Naughty Quotes

“We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.”
“We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.”
“The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
“I think people should be consumers of journalism.”
“Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.”

Source : John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.109, Wesleyan University Press
“While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.”
“You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.”

Source : Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“I just want to make everyone happy.”

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