"When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake."

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Philippa Gregory

#Snakes Quotes #Namesake Quotes

“Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.”
“And what if weâ€™d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if weâ€™d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasnâ€™t the secretâ€”the secret that wasnâ€™t a secret anywayâ€”that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.”
“The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.”
“If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.”

Source : "Song: Why Are The Drums So Silent ("Sunshine, Dust and The Messenger")". 2002.
“I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.”
“I'm a morning person, really alert.”

Source : "Alice Temperley: 'It's going to be a bit Guy Bourdin'". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2014.
“It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.”
“There are a lot of myths about gay people.”

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