"And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet."

-- Jenny Downham

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“Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.”

Source : Diane Duane (2003). “High Wizardry”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.”
“And I criedâ€¦ for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.”
“The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.”
“The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.”
“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”
“No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction”
“We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration.”

Source : "China’s President Lashes Out at Western Culture" by Edward Wong, www.nytimes.com. January 3, 2012.

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