"Should we say something?â€™ Cal asks. â€˜Goodbye, bird?â€™ I suggest. He nods. â€˜Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck."

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Jenny Downham

#Goodbye Quotes #Good Luck Quotes #Bird Quotes

“I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.”

Source : Source: wordswithoutborders.org
“I think it's better to have ideas.”

Source : "Fictional character: Rufus". "Dogma", www.independent.co.uk. 1999.
“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”
“What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.”
“So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter still must bind, And whom today the Spring no more concerns. Behold, this crocus is a withering flame; This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art. Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them, Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.”

Source : Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive
“You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major force in their whole lives. You need to do the job adequately and as best you can, and then provide them with independence from you. You have to give them enough so that they won't need you anymore.”
“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!”
“If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.”

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