"Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length."

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Source : Hall Caine (2016). “The Deemster”, p.5, The Floating Press

Hall Caine

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“I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.15, Wendy Lamb Books
“It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.”
“Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.”
“This is so like the way the Americans deliberately erroneously refer to Afghans and Iraqis as terrorists when they fight back killing American soldiers to protect their young from the illegal American invasion.”
“Whatever you do, do it well.”

Source : As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 77,
“History proves nothing because it contains everything.”
“I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.”

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