"She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We canâ€™t get in and she doesnâ€™t come out. Not often anyway, and certainly not for any length of time. But her mind takes her to somewhere kind, I think, to judge by the peaceful, serene look on her face most of the time."

-- Malorie Blackman

#Thinking Quotes #Judging Quotes #Peaceful Quotes

“We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse.”
“The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.”
“God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!”
“Why didnâ€™t you wake me up?' 'I thought you could use the rest. Besides, you were sleeping like the dead. You even drooled,' he added. 'On my shirt.' Claryâ€˜s hand flew to her mouth. 'Sorry.' 'Its not often you get to see someone drool,' Jace observed. 'Especially with such total abandon. Mouth wide open and everything.”
“Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.”
“I have a little piece of advice for all the single guys out there, this is a piece of gold so please write this down. If you have the opportunity to star in a movie, do it. Seriously, I find it's a lot easier to meet girls.”
“A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (2012). “Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics”, p.67, Princeton University Press
“Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.”

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