"The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal."

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Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.160, Macmillan

Esi Edugyan

#Kids Quotes #Glitter Quotes #Crystals Quotes

“Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.”
“It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers.”
“[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.”
“I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.”
“If you've never woken up from a car accident to discover that your wife is dead and you're an animated, rotting corpse, then you probably wouldn't understand.”

Source : S.G. Browne (2009). “Breathers: A Zombie's Lament”, p.10, Three Rivers Press
“Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?”
“We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2010). “Love and Obstacles”, p.66, Pan Macmillan
“He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and heâ€™d watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a drag or two were appropriate.”

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