"I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents."

-- Lynne Stewart

#Children Quotes #Cases Quotes

“My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.”
“When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked.”
“I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that we will be the ones who will help the poor overthrow the rich, who will talk about land reform and education and health facilities for everyone, and that when the Red Cross or Amnesty International comes to count the bodies and take the testimony of women raped, that our side won't be the heavies.”
“Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.”
“Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.”
“I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you”

Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.263, A&C Black
“As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day Australia is anything other than a grand - and successful - outpost of Euro-colonialism and, more specifically Anglo-Celt British colonialism. It's a fact of life like the Euro-colonization of the Americas etc. If it was an outpost of, let's say, Iranian or Zimbabwean colonialism would so many people still be so desperately trying to get into Australia by any means necessary, legal or otherwise? It's doubtful. Thank the Gods for Euro-colonialism!”
“Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ...”

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