Quotes
Authors
Susanna Clarke

"Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or twoquestions to Minervois in his own language. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch."

-- Susanna Clarke

#Two Quotes #Rivals Quotes #Yorkshire Quotes

“Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.”
“I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood”
“I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.”
“The Golden Rule will always be good advice!”
“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

Source : Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.77, Hachette UK
“Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.”
“I often suggest that my students ask themselves the simple question: Do I know how to live? Do I know how to eat? How much to sleep? How to take care of my body? How to relate to other people? ... Life is the real teacher, and the curriculum is all set up. The question is: are there any students?”
“The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.”

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