"You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together."

-- Suzanne Collins

#Thinking Quotes #Together Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.”
“Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top of a vertical hierarchy. To be an artist is to suffer and to lead a life without shelter. It takes a great amount of daring-do, self reinvention, imagination, familial loyalty, sacrifice, economic uncertainty, and the right to be wrong, the right to fail in order to achieve something of noticeable value.”
“A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.”
“My walk is consistently made fun of.”
“Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.”
“My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.”
“As an actor, you're never busy enough.”
“A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.”

Source : Eleanor Catton (2013). “The Luminaries”, p.341, Granta Books

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