"Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society."

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Source : Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2012). “Sorcery & Cecelia: Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot”, p.69, Open Road Media

Caroline Stevermer

#Light Quotes #Hands Quotes #Safety Quotes

“An honest man is always a child.”
“It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”
“One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.”

Source : John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.411, Canongate Books
“Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature.”
“As far as escaping and making plays, I have a lot of faith in our line.”
“You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.”
“There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.”
“The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!”

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