"When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it."

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Source : "O" Magazine, December 2003.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

#Reading Quotes #Library Quotes #Steps Quotes

“History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.”

Source : Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Shadow”, p.236, MIRA
“To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.”
“Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.”
“Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.”
“I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.”

Source : "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“I think it shows that you are a confident person if you can walk up to a group of girls and just be able to talk to them sober.”
“There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead to a sustainable system that doesn't stress the ecosphere. Alternately, continued violence feeds population surges and hoarding the products of exploitative extraction, which endanger the survival of our species. In short, if we want a future with humans on Earth, we've got to stop war.”
“To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.”

Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.894, Penguin

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