"It is important for women to do something about what they see."

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Source : Roma Tearne (2010). “Mosquito”, p.22, HarperCollins Canada

Roma Tearne

#Important Quotes

“Forgiveness indeed heals memories”
“Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.”
“The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.”
“What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.”
“Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature.”
“I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.”

Source : Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”
“Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.”
“A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot”

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