"I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less."

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Source : Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.184, Quirk Books

Ransom Riggs

#Ideas Quotes #Abundance Quotes #Deficiency Quotes

“Snowboarding allows you to create your own path, and for me it was awesome because no one was telling me what to do. I could go out on the mountain and try new things and learn for myself.”
“We dont need more of the same, typical politicians fighting for themselves and for special interests. We need someone to believe in our small-business owners again and someone to champion those folks who play by the rules.”
“In short I will part with anything for you but you.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.97, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
“If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.”
“I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.”

Source : "Q&A: Heikki Kovalainen, Lotus F1". Interview with Matt Salisbury, www.crash.net. December 14, 2009.
“We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.”
“The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.”
“The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.”

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