"Do you miss being friends with Santangelo?" I ask her after the lights are out and we're almost asleep. "What makes you think were friends?" "Everything." I hear her yawn. "Being enemies with him is better." she tells me. There's a long pause and I think she's going to say something more but she doesn't and it's just silence for a long while."

-- Melina Marchetta

#Thinking Quotes #Light Quotes #Long Quotes

“In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.”
“I don't know what's wrong with me. When I was a girl they had this aviary in one of my foster homes and I'd go in when no one was looking and put out watermelon rinds to feed the flies. There were all these flies that would have starved if I hadn't, and I'm not even wild about flies. They say it makes you a gentler person if you don't eat meat. But wasn't Hitler a vegetarian?”
“I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.”
“Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.”
“The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.”

Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.7, Penguin
“If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?”
“Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.”
“Basically, I didnt know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21.”

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