"He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?"

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Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.291, A&C Black

Madeline Miller

#Brother Quotes #Important Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you're young, you don't want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.”

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“If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.”

Source : "Anna Kendrick Talks WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, GET A JOB, END OF WATCH, and Her Desire to Play More Stoners". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 18, 2012.
“If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.”
“I never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.”
“Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.”
“There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.”
“I was going to be a scientist.”
“Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.”

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