"What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream off things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us."

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Source : Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

Chris Cleave

#Girl Quotes #Country Quotes #Dream Quotes

“Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon?”

Source : Peter Taylor Forsyth, Eugene H. Peterson (1916). “The Soul of Prayer”, p.11, Regent College Publishing
“Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.”

Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1871). “The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World”, p.81
“Every day, the people I meet inspire me... every day, they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.”
“As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.”
“I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.”
“Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.”
“Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.”

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