"With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds."

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Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.67, Random House

Aimee Bender

#Dark Quotes #Hands Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“Faith is seated in the understanding as well as in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a wing to fly to Christ.”
“'The Goonies' is the one that everyone either remembers themselves or their children are seeing now.”
“If you have never read the Protocols, you know nothing about the Jewish question.”
“To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.”

Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 134), 1988.
“The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.”

Source : "Battling the Information Barbarians". The Wall Street Journal, www.wsj.com. January 29, 2010.
“It's lose, lose for the taxpayer”
“Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“And at the UN she took the advice - she had to take the advice - of the State Department and the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. They keep our UN representatives on a very short leash. She did as she was told, and voted as she was told.”

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